Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 r0a "Sarge" - Official i386 B

[punk_baron]

Hi all,

I am new to Debian and this forum. I am installing 14 disc 3.1 Debian "Sarge", I install to my 10GB removeable hard drive (9 GB for ext3, 1 GB for swap file,). I tried to configure apt-setup but it asked for device file to access cd-rom. I search all 14 cds but no where saying about that. Which files are the device files? where can I find them on those cds??

ps: with 10GB hard drive, can I install full 14 disc software packages ?

Thanks in advance.

[grautu]

I tried to configure apt-setup but it asked for device file to access cd-rom. I search all 14 cds but no where saying about that. Which files are the device files? where can I find them on those cds??

I don't think your machine is asking about your CDs but about the way to access them; I mean files in your system which point to your optical drive(s). Please look into your /dev and your /media directories and post here how do they look like: is there anything suggesting to you about your CD device(s)? Furthermore, do you have a /cdrom directory in your system? Keep in mind that, most likely, your optical drives are named as /dev/hdb or(and) /dev/hdc or(and) /dev/hdd.

[startx]

ps: with 10GB hard drive, can I install full 14 disc software packages ?

no, of course you won't do that. apt-setup will just reading the contents of the CDs and when you require a certain package later, it will ask you to insert disc 1, 2or whatever is necessary.

[punk_baron]

Here is what I did:

in Debian base system, with root profile, I use "apt-setup". It prompted: "please choose the mothod apt", I then choose cdrom. After that Apt configuration, it said enter the device file to use to access your cd-rom and place debian cd in the drive:

default cd-rom device file:
/dev/cdrom/
I tried /dev/hdb or ../hdc or.../hdd -------->it showed '.../hdb and dev/cdrom/hdx are the same file.

Please look into your /dev and your /media directories and post here how do they look like:

<---- Please show me how do I go about it ?

Furthermore, do you have a /cdrom directory in your system? Keep in mind that, most likely, your optical drives are named as /dev/hdb or(and) /dev/hdc or(and) /dev/hdd

I have a cdrom directory.But nomatter what I type in it wont access the cds.[/quote]

[punk_baron]

I use "cat /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info" then I got:

drive name: hdd
drive speed: 54
drive # of slots: 1

...
can play audio: 1
can write CD-R: 0
...

[punk_baron]

Finally i figured it out with device file, it s because of the file permission.

For those who got the same problem with me (cdrom is secondary master):

[image]http://img290.imageshack.us/img290/6770/cdrom6xt.png[/image]

Device files dwell in the /dev directory. They are named this way:
IDE:
hda: primary master HDD
hdb: primary slave
hdc: secondary master
hdd: secondary slave

SCSI / SATA:
sda: first disk
sdb: second disk (and so on)

[punk_baron]

Now....I try to install gnome (and kde too) using aptitude, it asked me for disc 3...then it showed:

media error (bad sector)
ending request.....

Does that mean the disc broken ?

[startx]

media error (bad sector)
ending request.....

hm, looks like is is, yeah. maybe you just try to clean it.
are you connected to a network. you can easily get all the packages from
the internet.