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I'm not familiar with an ASUS laptop, but I know that a Sony VAIO has |
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a firewire bus for the cdrom. You might want to check to see if your |
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cdrom is firewire or IDE. When you use your gentoo boot CD, try lsmod |
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and see if it is loading any special firewire drivers. This might can |
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help you find out. |
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-Michael |
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On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 00:19:08 +0200, Jaroslav Sladek |
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<jaroslav.sladek@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 23:29:03 +0200, Henri Magnin <henri.magnin@××××.net> wrote: |
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> > Hi |
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> > |
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> > I recently purchased an Asus M6 (Centrino 1.6GHz), and did not want to bother |
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> > anymore with the Windoze Family stuff. |
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> > |
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> > I wanted to install a modular Linux, which I could master and upgrade as I |
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> > like. |
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> > I earlier tried muliple other distributions (Aurox, Mandrake), but I did no |
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> > longer expect to have any "straightforward" or "magic" install which was too |
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> > tricky to update in future. |
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> > |
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> > I downloaded Gentoo 2004.2, started from stage3 (in a first trial), and |
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> > compiled a 2.6.7 kernel. |
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> > |
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> > All was Ok, I even compiled X11 and kde and ati_drivers, to try employ at |
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> > best my Radeon 9700 graphics card. |
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> > My concern is about the CD-Rom on my own (very new) linux install. |
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> > When booting from the install boot CD-Rom, I have a /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 device. |
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> > But in the /dev of my hard-disk install, there is no such entry. So when I |
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> > chroot to it, I can no more see the CD-Rom device. |
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> You mean when you chroot to your harddisk after booting from CD? |
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> That's not a big deal, since gentoo uses devfs (or udev) which gets |
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> initialized during boot up sequence and actually creates all needed |
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> devices in /dev of your root filesystem. |
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> But if I misunderstood you and you're not seeing you CD rom device in |
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> /dev of your harddisk AFTER you booted your new kernel, then you |
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> probably forget something in kernel config. Most likely, you should |
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> have option "Include IDE/ATAPI CDROM support" checked under Device |
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> drivers->IDE/ATAPI/MFM/RLL support menu. |
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> Jaroslav Sladek |
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