ok, I REALLY hope im not posting something thats been covered a meellion times, i did have a really poke around the place but could find any answers to this one...

I fire up the Serious Sam installer, all is good. I have the retail Euro Version CD in the drive, I most definitely have mounted it. It asks me where to put it and I tell it. then it tries to start installing and cant get anywhere, error message is thus:

/dev/fd0: Input/output error
mount: block device /dev/fd0 is write protected, mounting read-only
/dev.fd0: Input/output error
mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified

and thats it. i've been trying all sorts of things to fix it and i cant. The kernel most definitely supports iso9660. and i dont what to do.

Well, for some reason it is expecting something to be in your floppy drive. Isn't this a CD that you are using? Why does it need access to the floppy drive? (/dev/fd0)

Post your /etc/fstab please.


John

i dunno, i dont even have a floppy in this system at all.

here's my fstab:

/dev/hda1 / ext3 errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /floppy auto user,noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/fat32 vfat rw,user,exec,noauto,uid=james 0 0

sorry its not all aligned, i blame jed and i cant get it aligned here

In that case, comment out the floppy entry in your fstab

No problem. Add a "#" to the front of this line (as root) and save it (be sure to make a backup first). Now try it again.


John

ha! it worked!! youre a legend, clicking on your affero button right now

thanks so much, i love this place

Thanks! However, I don't know about the legend part...


It's a good'un!


John