At 11:14 PM 4/26/1999 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Thanks, but unfortunately it did not work. The error message was something >like "can not mount cdrom /dev/scd0 is not a block device. What is a block >device anyway
A block device is a device that reads/writes data in chunks, like a hard drive or CDROM; a character device is a device that reads/writes data one character at a time, like a keyboard or (I believe) a printer. All devices have "names"; you're first IDE hard drive is /dev/hda and your second IDE hard drive is /dev/hdb, etc. The first partition on the first IDE drive is /dev/hda1 and the second partition would be /dev/hda2, etc. An IDE cdrom usually is the Master on the second IDE port, so it would be /dev/hdc (if it were the slave on the second IDE port it would be /dev/hdd, etc). Since you apparently have SCSI devices, these "names" don't really fit in your situation. Instead, the breakdown would look more like: First drive = /dev/sda first partition on first drive = /dev/sda1 Second drive=/dev/sdb 3rd partition on second drive = /dev/sdb3 Since I've never worked with a SCSI CDROM, I can't really give you any real answers, but you might try, as root, a command like: mount -t iso9660 /dev/sdc /cdrom where "-t is09660" means that this is a cdrom file system, and "/cdrom" is an existing directory on your linux box that serves as a "mount point" for mounting the cdrom drive. The "/dev/sdc" assumes that the drive is the third device on the SCSI chain (I think), so if it's not the 3rd device, modify the "c" part accordingly. I'm pretty sure you do NOT want "/dev/scd0", because the "0" would (I would think) mean the 0th partition. Hope I'm not just spewing bad info left and right....