No CDROM

[bruce woller]

Dear Clive:
I am offended by your attitude.  OpenSource, by it's definition is not 
about you.  The best help I can offer is to install MacOs X.  Most 
users of Linux appreciate the community aspect of the system.

Regards,
Bruce
FWIW: Insure that the SCSI emulation of IDE module is being loaded 
(should be in your initrd....img file.)
On Sunday, October 26, 2003, at 03:00  AM, Clive Boughton wrote:

> Charles, Doug,
>
> I've just installed YDL 3.0.1 on my "old" G4 TiBook (400MHz variety). 
> Getting airport going was my first challenge, but having loaded the 
> YDL OS I cannot access my CDROM (either).  I didn't receive the "can't 
> read superblock" message like you Charles, but I did receive a message 
> telling me that the device didn't exist in the fstab.  I edited that 
> file but then was informed that the device /dev/cdrom didn't actually 
> exist when I tried doing a mount.
>
> Looking around, there's no /dev/cdrom.
>
> I tried your "eject -t /dev/hdb" command and it seems that there's no 
> /dev/hdb either and so I receive the message of "device does not 
> exist".  I tried this simply because I have a CD stuck in the drive.
>
> Well, all I can say is "PATHETIC!!" Yellow Dog.  I had the impression 
> that YD actually represented the leading edge on Linux for PowerPC and 
> in particular Apple hardware.  If my experiences with getting the 
> airport connection going is anything to go buy, I'd say that YD is 
> really winging it!  I'm glad I had the foresight to get all the 
> airport settings and etails before I trounced MacOS.  Unfortinately, I 
> didn't see something as basic as CDROM setup and activation as a 
> possible problem.  Oh! Well!  But, maybe I'm being too harsh!  YD is 
> hardly mainstream yet and since the software is pretty cheap, I guess 
> resources might be a problem.  On the other hand, to overcome poor 
> resources it is best to put in place really good practices to save 
> time and effort.
>
> Look forward to a reply from anyone who can provide help.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Clive.
>
>
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