[CentOS] Problems w/ CentOS 4.4 ....

Fri Jan 19 21:01:38 UTC 2007
William A. Mahaffey III <wam at HiWAAY.net>

.... I just installed CentOS 4.4 yesterday P.M., on my 2.4 GHz P4 box, 
Foxconn i865 mbd, 2 GB DDR400 RAM (4 X 512 MB), 1 X 20 GB HDD (hda), 1 X 
160 GB HDD (hdb), 1 X LG GSA H22N DVD reader/burner (hdc), 1 X 400 GB 
HDD (hdd), Coolmax CP500-T PSU. I wiped SuSE 9.2 off of the 20 GB drive 
& installed CentOS. The other 2 drives were already ext3 FS & will be 
mounted as /home & /work when I get everything sorted out & going. The 
install went smoothly, I installed as a server, plus added all of the 
developement stuff. When I removed the DVD & rebooted, everything was 
AOK, except that the booted OS apparently didn't see the DVD drive. When 
I put the DVD back in to add some more software, it never automounted, & 
I never could get it manually mounted. I pored through dmesg output (& 
posted to other lists), but no luck. I eventually came up with the 
following question: Since this is a relatively new burner, could it be 
that it is unsupported under CentOS 4.4 ? I also googled & searched the 
archives (manually) this A.M., but no say either way. Sooooooooo: what 
did I mess up so that CentOS 4.4 can't see the DVD drive that I used to 
install it :-) ? Thanks in advance for your time.

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	William A. Mahaffey III

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