On Mon, 7 Jun 1999, Will Lowe wrote: > > But, now during boot, it does not detect the CD-ROM drive and as root I > > could not mount the drive either. I tried both these commands: > > > > % mount /dev/hdc /cdrom (I do have /cdrom as the mount point) > > or > > % mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt > > Try > mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc1 /cdrom > > ... you may need to specify which partition to mount.
On my system, the CD ROM is detected on boot up. I use the following command to mount an ide CD ROM. It is not necessary to specify a partition. To mention the obvious, you do have to have a CD in the drive to mount the drive. I am concerned that your CD ROM isn't detected on boot. Do you have support in the kernel for CD ROM drives and iso9660 file systems? Possibly you need to insmod your modules for these. My command looks like this: elentari:/# mount -r -t iso9660 /dev/hda /cdrom hda: media changed ISO9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3 elentari:/# ls /cdrom README.1ST README.non-US dists README.CD-manufacture README.pgp doc README.mirrors.html Release-Notes extras README.mirrors.txt boot md5sum.txt README.multicd debian elentari:/# Maybe someone else can offer more help. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (I'm hoping this is all of the above!)