James M. White wrote: > I am a Linux newbie, but have installed on (perhaps) four machines. > Here's my current..... > > PM G4/733 Quick > ATI radeon 7500 32M > hda = IBM 60gig > hdb = WD 20 gig <<---- Linux installed in 4 gig partition at the end of > this drive > logitech wheel mouse > SCSI Zip 100 drive > Internal CD-RW > Apple 1705 multiscan monitor > Epson Color SW 740 printer > > How do I open my CDROM drawer ? > > It won't open when I press the 'eject' button on my keyboard. > It won't open when I click the 'eject' button of the CD player application > It won't open when I right click on the CDROM deskop icon and then left > click on the 'Eject' option. > > The device is NOT mounted and evidenced by .... > > [root@localhost etc]# umount /mnt/cdrom > umount: /mnt/cdrom: not mounted > > Here's my /etc/fstab file...... > > > [root@localhost etc]# cat fstab > /dev/hdb4 / ext2 noatime 1 1 > none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 > none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 > /dev/hdb6 /home ext2 noatime 1 2 > /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount > dev=/dev/scd0,fs=iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 > /mnt/zip /mnt/zip supermount > dev=/dev/sda,fs=vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,codepage=850 0 0 > /mnt/zip2 /mnt/zip2 supermount > dev=/dev/sda4,fs=vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,codepage=850 0 0 > none /proc proc defaults 0 0 > /dev/hdb5 swap swap defaults 0 0 > > > Also.... why two zip devices? Not sure how that may have happened? I > can't seem to mount either... perhaps because disks were formatted on > Mac OS8. > > [root@localhost etc]# mount /mnt/zip > [root@localhost etc]# cd /mnt/zip > bash: cd: /mnt/zip: Input/output error > > Thanks for any help provided..... In general the 8.2 beta install went > fine. Of course, Gnome control panel is fubar, but that has been > reported earlier. I needed to fuss around to get 1024*768 resolution > configured... thought my monitor specs clearly indicate it's within > spec. CUPS did not, initially, install correctly. Had some problems > defining my epson printer...... but most bugs have been worked out. > > Jim > > > > > > >
I do this [colin@colinsbox colin]$ cd /mnt/cdrom [colin@colinsbox colin]$ eject should work Colin
