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Isn't it strange that, though almost everybody now has an IDE ATAPI |
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CD-RW, instructions on how to get them working are very hard to find? |
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Please don't forget the newbies. Even if they used Mandrake, Lycoris, |
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ELX or Xandros, ir won't be much help if they want to learn more with |
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Gentoo. Make sure you give them an adequate leg up. Don't forget |
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J-C's advice: no strong foundations, no solid building . :) |
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So, Here are the instructions I wrote using Slackware (I haven't moved |
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to Gentoo... yet.) I suppose it would be easy for you to adapt them |
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if need be. |
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Add |
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append="hdx=ide-scsi" |
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to /etc/lilo.conf |
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This line loads a module in the kernel for scsi emulation because |
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Linux normally works only with scsi cd writers. The x should usually |
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be replaced by c as the cd rewriter is most often plugged as the |
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secondary master. If not, it should be b for primary slave or d for |
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secondary slave. |
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Add |
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/sbin/modprobe ide-scsi |
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to /etc/rc.d/rc.modules |
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This line loads the scsi module installed by lilo.conf |
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Add |
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/dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user,ro 0 0 |
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to /etc/fstab |
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At boot time, this line in the file system table (fstab) will allow to |
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mount the cdrom to the mount point /mnt/cdrom . |
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For more advanced users: |
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Notice that, after loading the scsi module, if no other scsi device is |
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present, the device for the cdrom is scd0 instead of hdc (for a |
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read-only ide cdrom plugged on secondary master.) In some Linux |
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distros, a link is made from /dev/scd0 to /mnt/cdrom or other |
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mounting point, so that the line in fstab may read something like: |
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/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user,ro 0 0 |
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The third field means the file system is the standard iso9660. |
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"noauto", means "Do not mount the device automatically at boot time" . |
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(On the countrary, your hard disk, which is a non-removable device, |
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is mounted automatically. The system knows it is there, whereas there |
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might not be a cd in your cd writer :) |
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"user" allows any user to mount the cdrom. "owner" would allow only |
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root to mount it. "users" would allow to unmount the cdrom even if it |
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has been mounted by another user: seldom used. |
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"ro" means read-only. Don't ask me why the cd writer has to be mounted |
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read-only. |
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"0 0" relates to dumping and checking the filesystem. Forget about |
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this for now. |
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That's it folks! Don't you think, for 99.9% of your users, those few |
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lines would do a better job than the 75k outdated howto? |
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Gilles Pelletier |
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La Masse critique |
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http://pages.infinit.net/mcrit |
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