John O Laoi wrote: > > I've tried some of these solutions. > > However, when I insert a CD say, and run > > # fdisk -l > > it does not even see the CD volume, > > so there is no device to mount. > > > What could be causing that?
Hi John, I'm pretty sure 'fdisk -l' only lists hard disk partitions and won't indicate whether you have a CD in the drive or not. Your CD-ROM drive is given a file under /dev by the CD-ROM driver. Then in your /etc/fstab file, there should be a line mapping that device to a directory in the filesystem (/cdrom, which is a link to /media/cdrom0, I think is the Debian default). For example, in my /etc/fstab file, I have this line: /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 I didn't add that line, some smart part of Debian did (maybe the installer?) Check to see if your fstab file has a similar line. If it does, you can manually mount the CD: mount -a - OR - mount /media/cdrom0 Then 'cd /cdrom; ls' to see the contents of the CD. Otherwise you need to find out what device your CD-ROM drive is (grep'ing through the output of dmesg, I guess). Or if your drive is not even being detected by the driver, you need to figure that out. Have you ever successfully read any CD in your system? - Chris Burkhardt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
