ubuntu can' find cdrom?

ronnn

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I had ubuntu 5.4 working on my second hard drive with xp on the first. Anyways was having no luck installing what I wanted, but just received some nice advice from Daniel49 (thanks muchly). In the meantime I had used xp repair disk fix boot to get rid of the linux dual boot set up.


Anyways I downloaded unbuntu 5.10 and thought to install it in the same partition - disk boots and loads up - asks language etc. -- but can not find the cdrom. Same thing happened when I tried my origional 5.4 disk. Changed my cmos to use my second dvd reader, but couldn't find that either. What did I do?



p.s. I really like the ideas behind linux ......... but maybe aren't geeky enough or something?

 

n0cmonkey

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If you have multiple optical drives, unplug all but one. Keep the simplest of them too.
 

DaiShan

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When does it say that it can't find your CDROM? Do you have UBUNTU installed? If it's installed you may need to mount the drive, to do so type this command:

sudo mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdx /media/cdrom0 where x is the device name of your CDROM.
 

ronnn

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Thanks for the replies. As usual the problem turned out to be me, I was playing with IDE settings in the bios a while back and a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. All fixed now, am off to try installing java. :beer: