I managed to do a copy and paste to my etc directory by copying the new fstab to my tmp directory as user and then copying and pasting it into my etc directory as root. What follows is what I got when I typed mount -a in a terminal as root.
mount: block device /dev/scd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: No medium found
mount: mount point 0 does not exist
mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device
mount: mount point 0 does not exist
That means nothing to me but I'm hoping it will to you. I don't see anything there which appears to be my CDRW drive but then as I said , it means nothing, or I guess I should say very little, to me. My old SCSI CD ROM drive is listed in the hardware list as scd0 so I doubt that that is it. I also opened xcdroast and the CDRW does not appear there.
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Langsley T Russell wrote: > Hi again John. > > I edited the fstab file as you suggested. The contents appears below. > > /dev/hda6 / ext3 defaults 1 1 > none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 > none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 > /dev/hda8 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 > /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount > dev=/dev/fd0,fs=vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,codepage=850 0 0 > /mnt/scd0 /mnt/scd0 supermount > dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,suid 0 0 > /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 > /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 > none /proc proc defaults 0 0 > /dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0 > > > OK, Langsley, I think it's time to start dropping supermount, maybe you have the same problem with supermount as me. S0 I would like you to copy this script , /dev/hda6 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 /dev/hda8 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/scd0 /mnt/scd0 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850,noauto,umask=0,exec 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0 into a fresh new text file on desktop , do this by moving the cursor over a blank spot on desktop, rightmouse click down to create new - text file, and name it fatab, then move the cursor over the icon of the new fstab textfile and roghtmouse click- down to open with text editor, and choose one, say kwrite , and then sweep the text I have given you here with the mouse cursor and move the cursor over the open fstab text file left mouse click to position, and then press middle mouse button, and all the copyied text will fill out onto the page, then save and exit. You then have a new fstab file . Go to /etc directory in konqueror window and rename the existing fstab file fstab1, then copy your new fstab file to /etc directory. in a terminal , type, mount -a and see if that gives you a writer test by putting up something like xcdroast and see if it appears in the device list. or type in terminal, cdrecord -scanbus, and see what it says, John
