On Sun, 11 Apr 2004, Russ Wright wrote:
> Greetings fellow Sluggers!
>
> I have a HP Pavillion 6635. It is a basic Celery 533 Intel box. 128 MB of
> RAM, CD-ROM and Floppy, 10 GB Hard Drive.
>
> I am attempting to load Engarde Linux Community edition V2. The installer
> looks like the text version of the Red Hat Installer. I put the install
> disk in the CD-ROM drive and boot and the install process gets to the
> install gets up to a screen that says please put the Engarde CD in the
> CD-ROM drive but it fails to mount.
>
> If I go to a Bash Prompt#
>
> /bin/mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/hdc /cdrom
>
> I get a "not a directory error."
>
> The boot-up screen shows the CDROM as hdc (not hdb), so I don't think
> that the use of hdc is the problem. (mounting /dev/hdb didn't work
> either.)
>
> When I use the CDROM on another computer, the cdrom is successfully
> mounted and the install program continues.
>
>
> Any Thoughts?
"ls -ld /cdrom" and make sure it's a directory. Will a link to a
directory work also? Try mounting it on a known directory (any files
there before mount will be there after umount).
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