On 12 Oct 2002 18:11:11 -1000, Warren Togami wrote: > Can someone please help this person? > > On Sat, 2002-10-12 at 16:12, webmaster@hawaiidakine.com wrote: > > Help. > > > > I have tried for 2 days now to figure out the install from two > > how-to's for the new CDRW that I bought for use on Red hat 7*. > > (This box is 7.2 uptodate.) > > > > The OS on the box recognizes the Sony CDRW CRX195A1 just fine as an > > IDE. But I can't install the Recording/Playback software into the > > correct files. Don't understand this. > > Almost all of the files that are talked about in the 2 how to's I > > found are not on the 7.2 installation I have on the box. > > > > Are these just bad how-to's? One I know now is too old for Red Hat > > 6*. They both say > > you must make the OS think the IDE CDROM RW is a SCSI. > > > > Ok. > > > > They all,talk about hd?=ide-scsi, but don't tell where in the tree > > it is. Is it in /etc/grub or where? Then it says to delete the > > /dev/cdrom and replace it with cdr/cdrw but not where to put it. hd?=ide-scsi is a kernel option to be appended to the boot loaders kernel argument line. > > It says under grub to add the line to menu-lst for example. > > > > menu.lst isn't showing any where on the system $ ll $(find /boot -name menu.lst) lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Oct 21 2001 /boot/grub/menu.lst -> ./grub.conf It's just a soft-link to /boot/grub/grub.conf, provided that GRUB is installed at all. If LILO is used instead of GRUB, well, the problem is obvious, and /etc/lilo.conf must be edited instead (and LILO be re-installed). > > and neither are the > > SCSI modules > > for srO, sr1 etc... $ find /lib/modules -name sr\* /lib/modules/2.4.18-10/kernel/drivers/scsi/sr_mod.o $ find /lib/modules -name sg.o /lib/modules/2.4.18-10/kernel/drivers/scsi/sg.o > > Or the /dev for the sr0, sr1 etc... /dev/sg* and /dev/scd* > > Can any body point me to a Red Hat how-to which shows where to place > > these missing files in the directory tree? Don't understand this. > > It seems impossible to know where to add a missing file like > > "menu.lst" on > > a Red Hat system as they have changed the tree structure and startup > > files several times > > since 6.*. (One of the reasons I don't usually use Red hat any > > more.) Nonsense. > > This box is for burning cd's only. So it has just the CDRW and a > > sound card on it and an HD for the OS and ISO files. > > > > Thanks for any help or suggestions to point to a good how-to. What about Red Hat's manuals?
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