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Re: No /dev/cdrom with Pre-Release 10 and RH7.1

To: Jonathan Schwarz <js@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: No /dev/cdrom with Pre-Release 10 and RH7.1
From: "Bryan J. Smith" <b.j.smith@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 20:48:05 -0400
Cc: linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx, seawolf-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Jonathan Schwarz wrote:
> I just installed A RH 7.1 "Server" installation with the SGI PR 10 for 7.1
> The install went beautifully, and everything was fine until I tried to
> mount the RH install CD to install some packages that I wanted extra.
> /dev/cdrom is a symlink to cdroms/cdrom0, which does not exist.
> There is also no cdroms dir in dev, and no hd* except hda[1-7]!!!!
> Has anyone else seen this/know if this is an XFS or Seawolf problem?

Welcome to DevFS!  ;-PPP

Seriously now, is the driver for IDE CDs loading?  I haven't looked
at the latest version, but I suspect the CD-ROM is a module that is
not loading on boot.

-- TheBS

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