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> I wonder why I can boot from a install floppy, install or upgrade from
> my CDROM drive but after Linux is running I can't mount that
> CDROM drive. I get a message like " /dev/hdd not found in
> /etc/mtab or /etc/fstab. I've tried to edit /etc/fstab to have it say
> /dev/cdrom is /dev/hdd but when I try to mount that I read that
> /dev/hdd is not a valid block device.
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Providing you have the needed cdrom driver compiled into the kernel or
compiled as a kernel module then there should be no problem's.
My cdrom is on the second controller.
/dev/hdc so /dev/hdc is symbolicly linked to /dev/cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Feb 25 1998 /dev/cdrom -> hdc
The entry in fstab looks like.
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
Now simply typing 'mount /dev/cdrom' or 'mount /dev/hdc' mounts the drive
into /mnt/cdrom using the is09660 filesystem.
If your symbolic link is anything else than linked to your /dev/hdd then
that is possably the problem.
rm /dev/cdrom
ln -s /dev/hdd /dev/cdrom
You did not configure the CDrom properly when installing your distribution.
Or you thought you did but there was an error which you possably overlooked.
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> Jon Dowd - Ashland, Oregon USA
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Regards Richard.
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