[techtalk] CD ROM

[Gregory Conron]

On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, Tonya Winter wrote:
> Hi, I feel like this is a stupid question, but here goes...
> 
> I have redhat 5.2 installed and wish to upgrade to 6.1. I purchased a CD 
> with 6.1 on CheapBytes (?) and can't get my machine to read the "D" drive in 
> either dos or linux. I'm extremely new at this and haven't recieved my 
> redhat 5.2 books yet, so I hope you will humor me.

Hi,

You can mount the cd in linux by running the "mount" command as
root.. Make a directory off of / called "cdrom", and type "mount
/dev/hdc /cdrom" (hdc is usually the cdrom drive. However, I
have seen it listed as hda and hdb). However, if you are
upgrading from 5.2 to 6.1, you probably don't want the system to
be running (the base OS files have to be updated, and it causes
some nasty segfaults and kernel panics if you try to update a
running system). So if you have a newer motherboard that allows
you to boot from the cd (set in the bios), simply put the cd into
the cdrom drive, reboot the box, and the installation will begin.
If you don't have a board that allows cd booting, you will have
to download a boot disk from Redhat and boot using this disk. If
you have a normal atapi-compliant cdrom, the disk should
recognize it and continue the installation.

Cheers,
GC

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