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(?) Recompiling Kernel to Support CD-ROM

From PEREZ, Martin on Fri, 05 Mar 1999

Hi,

I am new to Linux and I though I would start on Red Hat 5.1, I'll

upgrade to 5.2 when I am happy and used to installing 5.1. Now I am able to install without an error, however, when ever I attempt to mount a CDROM with the -tiso9660 I get the error saying the format is not recognize. Therefore, I try to recompile the kernel using a 'make config', but WHAM!! I get a response of "No rule to make target 'config'". I have installed the relevant C libraries and the like on install. Please Help!!!

Martin Perez

(!) Let's take this one step at a time.
I usually put a space between my -t and my filetype specification. That might not be a problem, let's see...
O.K. The mount command doesn't care.
I can't say whether there is some other problem with the mount command that you are attempting since you don't give a full example of that command line.
In most Recent versions of Red Hat Linux the kernel is modular. Thus the iso9660 filesystem type is often contained in a module rather than being linked directly into the kernel. You can see which filesystem are currently linked into your kernel and/or provided by loaded modules by using the command
cat /proc/filesystems
... which is a dynamic list.
Perhaps you need to load the iso9660 module from its home under /lib/modules/X.Y.ZZ/fs/ (where X.Y.ZZ is your currently loaded kernel's version number). You could use the 'insmod' or 'modprobe' commands.
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By James T. Dennis, answerguy@ssc.com
LinuxCare, http://www.linuxcare.com/

(?) Recompiling Kernel to Support CD-ROM

From PEREZ, Martin on Fri, 05 Mar 1999

Hi,

I am new to Linux and I though I would start on Red Hat 5.1, I'll

upgrade to 5.2 when I am happy and used to installing 5.1. Now I am able to install without an error, however, when ever I attempt to mount a CDROM with the -tiso9660 I get the error saying the format is not recognize. Therefore, I try to recompile the kernel using a 'make config', but WHAM!! I get a response of "No rule to make target 'config'". I have installed the relevant C libraries and the like on install. Please Help!!!

Martin Perez

(!) Let's take this one step at a time.
I usually put a space between my -t and my filetype specification. That might not be a problem, let's see...
O.K. The mount command doesn't care.
I can't say whether there is some other problem with the mount command that you are attempting since you don't give a full example of that command line.
In most Recent versions of Red Hat Linux the kernel is modular. Thus the iso9660 filesystem type is often contained in a module rather than being linked directly into the kernel. You can see which filesystem are currently linked into your kernel and/or provided by loaded modules by using the command
cat /proc/filesystems
... which is a dynamic list.
Perhaps you need to load the iso9660 module from its home under /lib/modules/X.Y.ZZ/fs/ (where X.Y.ZZ is your currently loaded kernel's version number). You could use the 'insmod' or 'modprobe' commands.
Bu./usr/share/doc/lg/issue39/tag/6.html0100644000000000000000000002024007411206156016106 0ustar rootroot