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Article #47120Re: Linux still can't read CD-Rom!
From: Zebee Johnstone
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 00:00
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 00:00
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In aus.computers.linux on Sun, 17 Jan 1999 21:08:43 -0400 Kristen Hachey <bruhac@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote: >Hi! (Sorry to be so annoying!) > > I have an annoying installation problem. > > I've done almost everything I could find on the Net regarding >installation for Linux, and the installation program still answers me with >this error : That CD-Rom device does not seem to contain a Red Hat CD-Rom. >I have my CD in my computer. Some say that I have to copy my CD-Rom >drivers onto a boot diskette. Since I own an IBM Aptiva, the CD-Rom drivers >are impossible to find. They say it is integrated in the motherboard. >Without any further instructions, I can't go farther. > When I had this error, I discovered to my intense embarassment that the CD I had put in there was CD #2 of the set, not CD#1. So the install program was looking for the stuff on the first CD, and couldn't find it. And told me so. Took me ages to realise it meant what it said, that it was saying not "I can't find a CDROM" but "I can't find a *redhat* CDROM." Zebee
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102983,dc47cc507dc0e28a X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: zebee@zip.com.au (Zebee Johnstone) Subject: Re: Linux still can't read CD-Rom! Date: 1999/01/18 Message-ID: <slrn7a54ao.ppt.zebee@zipper.zip.com.au> X-Deja-AN: 433829961 References: <77u1qn$5l$1@garnet.nbnet.nb.ca> Organization: Zip Internet Professionals Pty Ltd Reply-To: zebee@zip.com.au Newsgroups: aus.computers.linux