Larry: The fstab file looks okay (to me at least). However, even though the CD is working fine (under Windows and the CD was used to install Mdk 8.1) it currently doesn't work under Mdk. Here are the contents of the /etc/fstab file:
/dev/hda4 / reiserfs noatime,notail 1 1 /dev/hda3 /boot ext2 noatime 1 2 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd1 /mnt/floppy2 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,exec,codepage=850,noauto 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0 From: Larry Sword [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2001 11:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Can't use CD-ROM on Toshiba laptop with Mdk 8.1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've loaded Mandrake 8.1 on a Toshiba Satellite 2545XCDT. While the install > with 8.0 worked without a hitch (many months ago), the same can't be said for > 8.1. > > First, let me point out that upgrading has been quite easy and, aside from the > CD-ROM hitch, almost trouble free. Putting a journalling file system on this > older laptop gives the user-interatction some well needed pep. > > The problem that I'm getting is that /dev/cdrom will not allow a mount. There > is a symbolic link from /dev/cdrom to hdc, but that doesn't work. > > mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom > > .. does not work. The error message is "mount: special device cdrom does not > exist" > > mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom > > .. does not work. Instead, the terminal session hangs and <Ctrl-C> does not > break it. > > Here is the setup in /dev (commands are run as root): > > >ls -l cdrom > lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root cdrom -> ../cdroms/cdrom0 > > >ls -l hdc > lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root hcd -> ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd > > >mount cdrom /mnt/cdrom > > Bottom line, I'm not able to use the CD. I know the CD works because it works > fine on Windows (the machine is a dual boot) and I used the CD to install > Mandrake. > > Anyone have any idea what the problem could be? > > Thanks in advance for any help. > > Ron Sounds like a link problem and your fstab. What does your /etc/fstab say? -- Sword'sEdge The things that surprised me was that there was a second floppy (fd1) even though there is only one floppy on the device.
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