Sort of related...
I've got Mandrake 7.0 running on a Gateway with a Phillips 2/2/4 CD-RW, and
for me it's not detecting the CD drive. At all. When I try to mount it, it
gives me an error,
"mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device" and that the driver is not
installed.
The history:
I installed Mandrake 7 from a CD. It went in resonably smoothly, the
installer had no trouble that it was running from a CD. As it was booting up,
the hardware detector told me that the CD drive was misconfigured. I told it
to ignore it the first few times, but then decided to let it uninstall it; I
was hoping it would reinstall it on the next boot. It didn't. So I tried
reinstalling Mandrake (from a CD again), but that did not get the cd drive
back. In my /etc/sysconfig/hwconf, the CD drive has the following entry:
class: CDROM
bus: IDE
detached: 0
device: hdd
driver: ignore
desc: "R/RW 4x4x24"
and in fstab:
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0
Can anyone suggest any HOW-TOs, man pages, friendly people I should refer to
in order to fix the problem? Thanks for your help.
-Andrew Vick
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>Well, th installer doesn't always make the best choices.
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>Civileme
