Re: [Sheflug] mount & boot

[José Luis Gómez Dans <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

Hi Pete,
On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 07:21:28PM +0100, Pete Smith wrote:
> I know you're getting pissed off with me by now but I have to ask someone :))
> 3 problems !st do'nt really matter so It's probably the easiest to solve.
> CDplayer does not play ! cd goes round no music, works fine in windows.

	Haven't got a clue about this one... Do sounds bilp around? Can
you play MP3s? Maybe you need to get rid of KDE's sound effects
(guessing here)?

> LILO on floppy as this is where I want it, worked fine first couple of boots,
> Now I get at boot LIL- and stop, I can run suse by using the installation disk
> and "boot existing system" but not a good way to work. I have used Yast to
> "configure LILO" chosen boot floppy and see it writing but same result at boot
> up.

	Are you sure you have the proper configuration? This means that
(probably!), lilo can't find /boot/map. Do you have this set-up in
/etc/lilo.conf. There should be a line pointint to the map file.
Something like:
map=/boot/map

	I don't use suse, so I don't know whether /boot/map is the right
file. Also, I would have guessed that yast does it all for you. Anyway,
if you make sure that (a) the file exists and (b) it's recognised
happily by lilo.conf, as root try typing /sbin/lilo with your boot
floppy in the drive. Make sure that you only have a single entry in
/etc/lilo.conf (namely, the floppy), otherwise, you risk making the
system unbootable.

> Having read some info pages I have tried in a terminal "mkbootdisk (uname -r)
> but get the message "command mkbootdisk not recognised"( see I am trying)

	Debian uses mkboot instead of mkbootdisk. Try to find where
mkbootdisk lies (try as root, bound to be in the the root's path and not
in the user's path by default). 

> I have tried to read the cover disk from this month Linux format, When I try to
> mount cd-rom ( from within kde) I get (as user) message 
> "Could not mount"
> "Error log"
> mount: only root can mount?dev/hdb on/suse
 
> So boot as root
> As root get the message
> " could not mount"
> "error log"
> "mount: mount point/suse.does not exist
> 
> cd-rom properties are.
> CD-rom. kdelnk
> access permissions set to 
> read = user/group/others

	Hmmm. This is easily solveable, but could sound a bit
intimidating :) I'm sure that suse/yast will have a better way, but you
can try doing the following as root. First find a suitable directory for
you to mount the cd (usually, /cdrom or /mnt/cdrom or similar), and then
simply do
mount /dev/hdb -t vfat /mnt/cdrom

	That should do it.

	On the web downloader, chances are that you have a little util
called wget in your system... I don't know what LF's web downloader
does, but I'm sure wget can do the same :)

	Hope this helps,
	José

-- 
José L Gómez Dans			PhD student
					Radar & Communications Group
					Department of Electronic Engineering
					University of Sheffield UK
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