Get RH 7.2 to work

vy_ho · 03-02-2002, 09:58 PM

I just install RH 7.2 and I have some problems. Please give me some advices.

RH runs ok except that the following problems:

1) My two CD-ROM does not work:

- I put in the Red Hat installation CD 1, then click Mount on the first CD-ROM listed one of the utility under the menu, I forget which but I am sure you know). I got an error: Unknown device
- Click mount on the 2nd one and I got the same error.

I put it other CD, such as one that I created using easy cd creator, windows 98 cd, music cd, none of them could be mount

2) Looking at hardware list, the two drives are also listed there.
3) Looking under:
/mnt
I see three entries:
- floppy, works ok
- the other 2 cd roms, I could change into that directory, and "ls", but does not see anything

4) My sound card was shown in the hardware list, but no sound was heard when I play one of the games with sound and volumn turn on (to high)

5) I can not see my FAT 32 drives/partitions. Using mandrake 8, I was able to see them and my CD drives, but I want to try Red Hat instead, and neither one work.

I though Linux was mature enough to solve this problem (or maybe I am mature enough to do this), and also different version of Linux wouldn't be so diffferent.

My computer is a Compaq 7485 presario, a little old, but sure good enough for Linux

One of the CD drive is a DVD and the other is CD-RW.

I haven't been specific to exactly the maker of those drives because I think Linux would be able to connect to most of them, just something I didn't do right ( I am a newbie in Linux, and Unix OS)

Thanks all for any suggestion or advice.

pbharris · 03-02-2002, 10:05 PM

hello,
i am not sure what window manager you are using, but i guess that is what youare using to mount your drives, here is my /etc/fstab file which should show you how to make all the entries in your /etc/fstab file, e.g. cdroms, and fat32 partion

Code:

[pbharris@bugs ~]cat /etc/fstab
LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
/dev/hda5               /backup                 ext3    defaults        1 2
/dev/hda1               /c                      vfat    defaults        0 0
none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
/dev/hdb3               /home                   ext3    defaults        1 2
/dev/hdb4               /mp3s                   ext3    defaults        1 2
none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
/dev/hdb2               /usr/local              ext3    defaults        1 2
/dev/hda6               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro,user 0 0
/dev/cdrom1             /mnt/cdrom1             iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro,user 0 0
/dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto    noauto,owner,kudzu,user    0 0
pookie:/tmp             /net/tmp                nfs     rw,hard,intr 0 0 
//sparches/c            /net/sparches           smbfs username=pbharris,password=foolsputpasswdshere,noauto 0 0
[pbharris@bugs ~]

what kind of sound card? try runningsndconfig to set it up.

kingmike · 03-03-2002, 09:35 PM

Red hat 7.2 has some issues with some cdroms after the installation. I ran into the same problem. Try mounting your cdrom from within the console. If you get an error like "/dev/cdrom not a valid block device" then you should "su" to root then run "depmod -ae". That should solve your cdrom issues (hopefully).

kingmike · 03-03-2002, 09:38 PM

... Now that I think about it, depmod won't work if you su. Just log in as root normally then run depmod -ae.

rehash · 03-04-2002, 06:08 AM

redhat7.2 didn't detect either of my CDrom drives untill i ran /sbin/sndconfig and rebooted
try running it in your console as root, then as your login name then reboot
have you tried mounting the cdrom manualy? mount /dev/?? /mnt/cdrom

* ??= Your CDrom device.

rehash · 03-04-2002, 08:35 AM

To mount your windows partition/harddrive, figure out where it is..
primary master = /dev/hda
primary master partition1 = /dev/hda1
primary slave = /dev/hdb
primary slave partition2 = /dev/hdb2
etc,
secondary master = /dev/hdc secondary slave = /dev/hdd

So say your windows OS is on your first hard drive in the third partition you would type as root in your console:
mkdir /mnt/vfat
mount -t vfat /dev/hda3 /mnt/vfat

hope this helps also.

vy_ho · 03-05-2002, 10:39 AM

Thank you all for your kindness and helpful advice. I get the my CD drives to work by using the command you tell me. For my sound card, I did many thing, and one of them is just turn on the volumn. It's embarassing for me to say that, but I did try to turn it on real high in my one of the game with sound to test it. I didn't know how to do it until someone told me some kind of command (I don't have it with me, since I have it under Linux) and in the terminal window, I changed the volumn. I have not test to see if everything still work under normal user yet (not a root user). If any of you have sometimes, please let me know if it's possible/normal to run winmodem under Linux. If so, is there any standard way/commands/setting I can do to get it to work.

Again, thanks all for your help.

Vy Ho

neo77777 · 03-05-2002, 11:00 AM

ARGH, winmodem, sorry to disappoint you even if you'd manage to run it under linux odds are very high you wouldn't get a performer out of it. Put it this way - winmodems are crap ( they are not hardware at all) See if your model is listed over here . If it's not there, it means it is not anywhere else, except if you decide to write your own driver for it.