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I am seeking information on how to set up my lap top
(Dual SKD-4000) and the PCMCIA CDROM (Creative Labs Omni4X).
I have had Linux running for some time on the lap top
but I have no idea how to access the attached PCMCIA CDROM.
I have read the PCMCIA-HOWTO and the CDROM-HOWTO and
the suggestion there is that the PCMCIA CDROM is probably supported
under the ATAPI ``IDE'' interface. That suggests that, when I have
the system propoerly configured, the CDROm should appear as something
like /dev/hdb. 

There are two aspects of what I want to solve:
  1. I want to be able to install Linux from the CD - booting from a floppy
  2. I want to mount the CD during normal operations
(and, since the version I have on the lap top is out of date, preferably
do 1 before 2).

Can anyone confirm/state the way the CDROM is supported?
I have tried a few things: I got the idecd boot disk (slackware)
and the pcmcia root disk and tried booting from these.
There is one worrying message:
  BIOS32extensions missing - sorry this version requires these
(or something to that effect). But the system appears to boot.
However, when I try to mount the CDROM 
mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb /cdrom
I get the message
file system iso9660 not supported - see /proc/filesystems for supported
types - a mysterious message since the file system iso9660  is
indeed listed in this file!

So, any helpful pointers appreciated.
regards
d.s.
-- 
David Suter - Dept. of Electrical and
Computer Systems Engineering, Monash University,
Clayton, Vic. 3168, Australia
ph 905 5682 Fax 905 3454