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I just got slackware9.1 setup, I installed it from the cd's at boot. I first encountered some problems with my nic card and found the file to fix it with, burned it to a cd and discovered my linux box won't show tar file on the cd.
I checked and my cdrom is being mounted but when I run modprobe it returns
"can't locate module cdrom"
I searched around and tried to file the libraries...
"find /lib -iname "*cdrom*"
which returned...
"/lib/modules/2.4.22/kernel/drivers/cdrom"
I'm pretty much stuck right here, I'm still very new to linux and just really don't know what to do now that I know the location of that module.
I'm looking at it right now in KDE it shows 0 items 0 files 0 directories. I thought it might just be the cd I burned, but I tried to put one of the slackware cd's in there and it shows the same thing.
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