Re: loader error message, misdirection in cdrecord device missing error

Thus quoth Rob Ristroph on Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 05:59:01PM -0500:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>         If you compile and link a dynamic executable on one linux
>         distribution and copy it to another, sometimes you get a
>         message where running the executable on the new machine gives
>         "file not found."  The file it isn't finding may be

This will often be a shared library. You either:
- install the needed library
- get an executable compiled on your OS version
- compile the source yourself (simplest solution)

>         If you are attempting to install cdrecord and burn CDs on a
>         very minimal system, you may get an error about not being able
>         to find /dev/pg0 or /dev/pg or something like that.  What is

/dev/sg0 maybe? /dev/sga in some cases? 

>         happening here (at least in my case) is that it is failing to
>         find the device files for the scsi or scsi emulated cd burner,

The device special files should be present on a good distro, but you can
create them with the 'mknod' command. 

More often the device driver is missing from the kernel. For Atapi drives
you would have to disable the ide driver for that device and then enable
the ide-scsi driver. 

If you're all set, you use 'cdrecord --scanbus' to find your burner. 
(The CD-Writing Howto lacks a few points)

Kind regards,


Daniel von Asmuth

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