Gentlemen: I believe that our Brazilian friend has hit the nail on the head. I did a search of the mailing list of expert (before I started this thread) but didn't find the one he mentioned below. My own thoughts of what the problem was clouded my choice of search criteria -- to my detriment. Lesson learned. In any case, Muchas Gracias! (Which is as close to Portuguese as I can get, please accept my apologies for not knowing the correct translation.)
Just to see if it was on the right track, I did a search of /dev and found an entry for cdrom2 (as well as the symbolic link for cdrom). Sure enough... >mount /dev/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom worked like a charm. I'll follow the instructions given in the link and fix the box. Many thanks to all! Best wishes, Ron > look that message: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/expert@linux-mandrake.com/msg43118.html > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > Charles A Edwards wrote: > > > > > > > > On Mon, 22 Oct 2001 14:16:45 GMT > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > If you are trying to mount the drive with either of the above commands then > > > > that is why it will not work. > > > > > > > > 8.1 uses devfs the correct command is mount /mnt/cdrom > > > > To unmount either umount /mnt/cdrom or eject /mnt/cdrom > > > > > > > > > > Charles > > > > > > Actually, either command should work. > > > > > > mount /dev/hdc > > > or > > > mount /mnt/cdrom > > > > > > Assuming that the correct links exist in the /dev and the mount points > > > are correct. > > > > > > > Well, I get the same result if you type mount /dev/hdc or if you type mount > > /mnt/cdrom. In both cases, the first time I execute the command, I get a > > segmentation fault. The second time, it just hangs. > > > > According to the listing in /dev, hdc has... > > > > >ls -l /dev/hdc > > lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 30 Oct 22 07:00 hdc -> /ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd > > > > (Note, the /ide... is highlighted in black on the terminal (set to transparent > > konsole.) > > > > >ls -l /dev/cdrom > > lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 16 Oct 22 07:00 cdrom -> ../cdroms/cdrom0 > > > > (Note, the "cdrom" and the "../cdroms/cdrom0" are flashing red on the konsole.) > > > > Thanks again for your suggestions, > > > > Ron > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > -- > > ,~~v~~, ,~~v~~, > ,'. .', ,'. .', > === + === === + === > / ~ \ / ~ \ > /\_m m_/\ /\_m m_/\ > .\ +----------------------+ /. > / ! [EMAIL PROTECTED] ! \ > / +----------------------+ \ > `\m/ \m/' `\m/ \m/' > >
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