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Article #47235CD-ROM not working under linux slakware
From: Darrin Smith
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 00:00
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 00:00
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I sucessfuly set up linux (I thought) installing it from the slakware CD Now when I boot and login (as root) I can't use the cd-rom. During the startup detect it reports that the cd-rom format is not compatable and that no cd was found. I have the CD as secondary master (ie /dev/hdc) the linux swap and native partitions are on primary slave (hdb) win98/fat32 is primary master (hda) I think maybe the secondary controller hasn't been enabled. How can I check this and change it? (I didn't install package "Q" do I need that too?) I'm also having stacks of problems getting X to run. startx bombs with heaps of errors. I've got a S3 ViRge 4MB PCI. Does anyone know what settings I should use? even startx -probeonly bombs. Thanks! -- Darrin Smith Phone(work)08 9224 0263 (+61 8 9224 0263) Ph.D Student, University Dept of Medicine(fax) 08 9224 0246 (+61 8 9224 0246) Medical Research Foundation Building (home)08 9305 9425 (+61 8 9305 9425) Level 4, 50 Murray St. PERTH WA 6000 NEW(mob) 0414 756 502 (+61 414 756 502) -----------------------PORSCHE- There is no substitute----------------------- E-Mail: darrins@cyllene.uwa.edu.au WWW:http://www.uwa.edu.au/cyllene/darrins -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102983,16d35ab716a138d9,start X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: Darrin Smith <darrins@cyllene.uwa.edu.au> Subject: CD-ROM not working under linux slakware Date: 1999/01/15 Message-ID: <77mdkp$8so$1@enyo.uwa.edu.au> X-Deja-AN: 432802480 Organization: The University of Western Australia User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-980226 (UNIX) (Linux/2.0.35 (i686)) Newsgroups: aus.computers.linux