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In article <DM5r6o.LyK@lziss3.lincroftnj.ncr.com>, Amitava Dutta <ad> wrote:
>I am not able to install linux from
>cd-rom.
>The system is
>   486 VLB with AMI (11/92) bios
>   Promise EDIE 2300+ controller
>   Maxtor and Conner IDE disks
>   NEC SCSI-2 cd-rom drive
>   Jazz sound card with integrated
>      rom-less Future Domain 8xx scsi controller. 
>   I tried at the boot prompt
>      ramdisk tmc8xx=0xCA00,11
>   and it allows me to login as root.
>   However, when I try to mount the cd-rom
>   with, for example
>      mount -t iso9660 -r /dev/<cdrom> /mnt
>   it complains that 
>      /dev/<cdrom> is not a block device
>   [ of course the directory entry says it 
>     is a block device ]
>   I have tried with all the cd* device files
>   I could locate.









I have a virtually the same problem with a CHINON 525 SCSI drive and Adaptec 
1522a controller.  The common elements to the above are that I am using EIDE 
HDDs and SCSI CD-ROM.  Linux complains that it is not a block device or the 
scsi bus times out.

I am using the Slackware 3.0 November 1995 edition.

The CD-ROM drive works fine under NT and WIN95.

I have linux working by copying the software off CD using Win95, 
booting from disk, and mounting the DOS drive.

Linux works fine, I just can't mount the CD - which is a real pain.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Ben.