On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 08:39:44PM +0100, Steven Satelle wrote: > Look in your /etc/dev for /cdrom and mount using that, linux sees it as a > cdrom not a hd (i think)
No. /dev/cdrom is just a symlink to /dev/hd?. I'm guessing that the cdrom is not connected to the slave of the first ide controller (/dev/hdb), but rather is the master of the second ide controller, /dev/hdc. That's a pretty common configuration. You might check where your BIOS says it's connected (F2 or something for SETUP at boot). I'm assuming this isn't a CD-RW (in which case you need ide-scsi support in the kernel) and isn't a SCSI device. > On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 01:19:44AM -0700, Kevin A Smith wrote: > > I don't think it's even "installed" as such. If I tried the above > > command for example, I keep getting: > > kevin-dsl-212:/cdrom# mount -t iso9660 -o ro,unhide /dev/hdb1 /cdrom > > mount: /dev/hdb1 is not a valid block device > > Aha! You need to address cdroms as the whole device, no partitions. Try > /dev/hdb instead. > > > No change: > > kevin-dsl-212:/tmp# mount -t iso9660 -o ro,unhide /dev/hdb /cdrom > mount: /dev/hdb is not a valid block device -- ¶ One·should·only·use·the·ASCII·characterset·when·compos » ing·email·messages.
