[Discuss] tex and dsl

[Bill Leuze]

At 02:40 PM 2006-12-04, you wrote:

>hello everyone.
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>it seems that although i have a better computer now, i still can't run a better version of linux. i tried ubuntu but got an error 17 then the l99 at boot.
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>but dsl works. however, i wanted to install tex on it and when i use mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom like the guide (http://www.tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/live.html#x1-120003) tells me, it doesn't work. i dropped the last two sections of the directory, then spaced iso 9660, put it back, blech. but bash told me the iso format wasn't recognized by the kernel.
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>if anyone happens to know what's going on, please let me know... ?

well, 2 things to look for:
-1. make sure the mount point /mnt/cdrom does exist, if not create it
        mkdir /mnt/cdrom
-2. make sure the device /dev/cdrom does exist or, if /dev/cdrom doesn't work, try /dev/hdb or /dev/hdc or /dev/hdd, its bound to be one of those (/dev/cdrom would just be a symbolic link to one of those anyway)

But we could help better if you let us know what your display reads when "it doesn't work", likely there is a very helpful error message there.

Bill

mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom 



>i'd like linux, tex, and hopefully some source code of some sort to play with, especially python (since i'm just starting out).
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>thanks,
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>tim
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