The kernal is able to detects a cd0 device.

At 08:57 PM 5/3/01 +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 12:20:45AM +0800, Stephen Chung wrote:
> > I got this GPL cdrom from linux central. Everything goes well until the
> > system try to install the packages.
> > It fails to read from the cd rom drive. So, I do try to do a ftp install,
> > it did downland the tgz and unpack them and then
> > what do I do next?
>
>Can you check from the boot message that the kernel detects a 'cd0' device ?
>If you don't have time to check it, you can get the boot messages from a shell
>prompt with 'dmesg |more' or 'more /kern/msgbuf' (don't worry about
>the '@' chars at the beggining).
>
>--
>Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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