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Greetings,

I am a newcomer to the realm of Linux.  I have purchased the Slackware
3 CD-ROM set & am trying to install it.  I have been able to setup my 2
hard drives a 519 megabyte Seagate and a 407 megabyte maxtor.  Maxtor
has 2 DOS partitions and 2 Linux partitions. (1 16 meg Linux swap
partition and 1 147meg Linux Native partition).
The seagate has 5 DOS partitions.  All seems to be OK here.  (Both IDE)
A special disk was supplied to set up Seagate to use all of the 545
million bytes, which it does.

I have created several boot & root disks needed for different CD-ROM
drives.  I have tried using 5 of these to no avail.  Linus goes in but
will not recognise my CDROM.  It is a Mitsumi model CRMC-FX-001 bought
back in Aug. 1993. It was a Creative Labs package which included the
soundblaster.  The card is a dual unit containing both the audio side of
things and also the controller for the drive.  It gives no problem with
DOS.  BTW its a single speed drive.

I have to get Linux to recognise this as I cannot load the filesystems
until I do because its all on those 3 CD's.  Now, I really don't know a
lot about the setup proceedures of Linux but I have to start somewhere &
I am really at a loss now at what to do.  I have read piles of docs & so
forth but can't really get the problem pinned down.

I REALLY NEED HELP URGENTLY.  Can any of you Linux gurus please advise
me what I may try.  Computer is 486SX 8 meg RAM (no local bus). Normal
A drive 3.5 1.44m & B 5.25 1.2m.

The boot disks I have created are: Mitsumi, SBPCD, Loaded, SCSI and
Old1118. As stated these have all be tried but it will not allow the CD
ROM to be recognised.  What am I doing wrong?

I am stuck fellas!  I have been fiddling with this for 3 days now & just
about ready to give up, so if you are able to help.......Thanks.
I am home most times so for Adelaide users my voice number is on the
.Sig line if you care to ring & talk.  Any & all help will be greatly
appreciated.            Eric W.

p.s. E-mail or newsgroup message - I login regularly on a weekly basis.

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and make a directory called /cdrom. Then you can 'mount /cdrom' and
access the drive. Or leave out the noauto above and automount at boot time.

Hope this helps,

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Dan Baker

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Quote:> Greetings,

> I have created several boot & root disks needed for different CD-ROM
> drives.  I have tried using 5 of these to no avail.  Linus goes in but
> will not recognise my CDROM.  It is a Mitsumi model CRMC-FX-001
...
> The boot disks I have created are: Mitsumi, SBPCD, Loaded, SCSI and
> Old1118. As stated these have all be tried but it will not allow the CD
> ROM to be recognised.  What am I doing wrong?