Re: cannot mount cdrom

["Thomas Goode" <tjgoodejr msn com>]

Le 30/06/2003 03:43, «?Stephen Kuhn?» <skuhn telpacific com au> a écrit?:

> On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 11:13, Thomas Goode wrote:
>> I am completely new to Unix and I am having trouble accessing my
>> cdrom. I am not sure what the problem is; I get a cdrom is not a valid
>> block device message when I try to mount it.
>>
>>
>>
>> I am using redhat linux v 7.1; any help would really be appreciated
>>
>>
>>
>> Tom


*** I think there's a bug in RH 7.1 which doesn't link the CD blockdevice to
/dev/cdrom which is actually used by the mount icon in KDE or GNOME.

Tell us, to start with,  what you get when you type the following in a
terminal window:

    ls -l /dev/cdrom.

-- 
Cheers,
Zoran.

Software isn't released, it's allowed to escape.


> Tom, your best bet would be to open a terminal, make sure you have the
> CD in the CDROM drive, and type:
>
> mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
>
> ...if there's an error, you'll see it spitting it out right then and
> there...
>
> ...also, you might want to check which "device" your CDROM is - for
> instance, if it's connected as the slave to the master, and you've only
> got one hard drive, it's probably linked to /dev/hdb - which, if that's
> the case, you can then type:
>
> mount /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom
>
> ...and to unmount it,
>
> umount /dev/hdb


Thanks for all the help with this; when I type ls -l /dev/cdrom I get
    lrwxrwxrwx    1 root    root    /dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdc
what I have in /etc/fstab
    /dev/cdrom    /mnt/cdrom    iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
Maybe it is of no significance but this thing of course worked for the 
installation process!

Thanks again
Tom