Re: What is a block device name?
"Beth Lewis" wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>
>I've been lurking on this list for ages and you seem a very friendly
>bunch <grin>, so I hope someone can help me with what is obviously
>a very newbie question.
>I am loading Debian 1.3.1 for the first time, and I get:
>
>"Insert the CD_ROM and enter the block device name []:
> Can
>someone tell me what it wants to know? What did I do wrong?
I don't know that you did anything wrong...
The block device is a filesystem pointer to the device driver that will
operate the CD drive. It will look like /dev/...
Precisely what it is, depends on what kind of CD drive you have.
If you have an IDE CD drive, it will be one of these:
1st interface, master (unlikely): /dev/hda
1st interface, slave: /dev/hdb
2nd interface, master: /dev/hdc
2nd interface, slave: /dev/hdd
If you have a SCSI CD drive: /dev/sr0
If you have a CD drive connected to a sound card, ask again with more
details.
One last point: your clock is wrong. Your message said it was sent at 15:01
one hour ahead of GMT; that should be 11 hours ahead. You appear to be
running in the wrong timezone. Use tzconfig to correct this.
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