I just set up a suse 8.2 server for faxing (Hylafax, working nicely). I want to add printers, but the yast2-printer and yast2-printerdb rpm files weren't on the system and yast couldn't read from the cd. I installed from the cd and was still able to boot from the cd. I tried to mount the cd manually with 'mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom' and get the error message the device isn't a block device. Since it was working a few days ago, I'd like everyone's opinon on whether I've been cracked and how I could explore whether I have or not. Mark
On Wed, 7 May 2003 15:15:22 -0400
Mark Halegua
I just set up a suse 8.2 server for faxing (Hylafax, working nicely).
I want to add printers, but the yast2-printer and yast2-printerdb rpm files weren't on the system and yast couldn't read from the cd. I installed from the cd and was still able to boot from the cd.
I tried to mount the cd manually with 'mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom' and get the error message the device isn't a block device.
Since it was working a few days ago, I'd like everyone's opinon on whether I've been cracked and how I could explore whether I have or not.
Well that's no indicator of "being cracked". It's just a common glitch that you run into occaisionally. You probably have the cdrom drive setup as ide-scsi, or something like you have a big fingerprint or some smudge on the cdrom, and it needs cleaning. So, look at your cd, if you see a big smudge, clean it and try again. Use the complete command too: mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb /media/cdrom (or whatever your cdrom is) if that don't work try mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom that tries to mount it as ide-scsi. If you have one of those ide cdwriters, it's probably /dev/sr0 If that works, then the problem is your symlink for /dev/cdrom, point it to /dev/sr0. -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation
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