[Devil-linux-develop] CD Mount Problems

[John v. V. <joh...@ya...>]

Hi, Meeting went fantastic again.

I did the LVM and demonstrated how less than $15 (cd, floppy, old h/d) added to
a simple PCs can produce some of the most sophisticated, secure and crash proof
systems anywhere.  Maybe the wave of the future.

Minutes before the meeting, I finally found out that the CD mount command in
initrd simply wasnt succeeding, maybe because of old equipment, second rate cd
disks... or maybe the cd device simply isnt prepared to do the mount the second
time.

We are net installing debian at this very moment so I cant hack the initrd cd
mount script to send errors to the screen.

So that was the cd problem all along.  Using a memorex cd disk in a 1 speed
read/write cd device works.  My 44x cdrom tries but wont mount the cd either. 
TDK brand cd disks wont mount on either cd device.

Since I have multi-boot redhat and debian on one box (as well as DL) we had to
configure grub.  But... all disks mount when I get DL booted from the 1 speed
cd read/write device.

Looks like Debian will be the firewall/router for the time being until we
resolve these DL cd mount problems.  Also, there is still strong interest in a
DL desktop, and as I said, I want to bring in Xwindows to test the efficency of
the SHMFS swapping as opposed to traditional systems.

Ok... I will hack initrd's cd mount script as soon as debian is configured to
see if there are any discernable errors that can be added to the mount script.

Cya soon, John


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