Re: KDE kppp network dialer

["Robert G. Brown" <bob@xxxxxxx>]

>Robert G. Brown wrote:
>
>>>"Wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc, or too many mounted
>>>filesystems"
>>As root? Hmmm.... read on....
>Yep, as root..
OK, merely checking to be sure.

>>>... I have an IDE cdrom, as for the channel or device i really dont know.
>>OK. You need to find this out. If you don't know how to do this, we can talk
>>you through it. Alternatively, you can use something other than /dev/hdc.

>So how would i do this?  When i load up Linux it says
>hdc: ATAPI IDE CD-ROM drive (or somthing like that)
>are u saying i have to edit the startup file or something that would change 
>hdc to like hdx or something?
No, no... if the kernel recognizes hdc as a CDROM drive, who are we to argue?

>>>How would i change hdc to something else?
>>By typing something different than /dev/hdc
>that would mean i would have to edit the startup files or something right?
No. I was writing about altering the mount command. But if the kernel recog-
nized hdc as an ATAPI CDROM, the cammand I sent should be just fine. Now, 

>>>This is just one of my MANY problems that i am having with RedHat....
>>That's fine. In or out, we're only going to solve these problems one at a 
>>time, and we can't test the modem at a meeting.
>Well all i want it to do it reconize it.. 
Look, all you modem users are alike, after you get the system to see the 
device, then you want to USE it, and that's where other stuff can happen.
I was like that too, once (believe it or not! :)

We can sure look at config files, here or at the meeting.

Tell me, what do you get when you type this (as root):

ls -lart /dev/hcd /dev/cdrom
???
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