RH7 install

[Joel Jaeggli]

On 22 Nov 2001, Doug Wolfgram wrote:

> Still having problems.
<snip>
> 
> I reset the DVD disk to /mnt. For some reason, /dev/dvd doesn't work on
> my machine. (Is there a way to save options so I don't have to set this
> every time I run it???)

the dvd shouldn't be mounted in order to access it...

if as root you do: 

ls -la /dev/cdrom (assuming your dvd drive is /dev/cdrom you'll see that 
cdrom is a softlink to something, in my case:

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            8 Aug 28 17:18 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdc

you can then create a soft link from /dev/cdrom to /dev/dvd

ln -s /dev/cdrom /dev/dvd

that way if you move your dvd drive to a different ide postion, kudzu will 
point the /dev/cdrom link at the right drive and everything will be ducky.

> The error I get when I OPEN DISC is
> 
> libdvdcss error: css error: ioctl_ReadCopyright failed, make sure there
> is a DVD in the drive, and that DVD ioctls were compile din this
> libdvdcss version.
>
> 
> UDF: partition 0 not found.
> 
> dvd error: failure in ifo
> 
> 
> What does this mean? Sorry for the long email but I thought that more
> information would help...
> 
> 
> D
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2001-11-22 at 02:22, Christophe Massiot wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 21, 2001, Doug Wolfgram wrote:
> > 
> > > I tried something else. I downloaded the source and compiled it on my
> > > other machine with no errors. I copied the binary vlc over to the target
> > > DVD machine and run it. No GUI. It appears to run at command line, but I
> > > can't get DVD to play. Keeps giving CSS errors.
> > 
> > You also need to copy plugins/*.so files otherwise architecture-specific
> > files won't be found.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Christophe Massiot.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 

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