A few days ago I installed Mandrake 7.0 from a cdrom disk purchased at Cheapbytes.com. All seemed to go smoothly but a couple of problems have developed. First: When I bootup I always get the message: "/dev/hda3 not cleanly unmounted, check forced" and then it goes through the process. I have been using various distributions of linux for about three years now and am familiar with the checking procedure which normally occurs every x-number of times one boots up, but not checked every time. Have been careful to see that all applications are closed before logging out of X and shutting down. When I boot up into Xwindows I'm using kde. How do I eliminate the every-boot checking? Second: I configured sound and have been playing the music I like on CD disks that I own. But today after I booted I could not open the cdrom drawer and using the mount commands "mount /dev/hdc" or "mount /dev/cdrom" did not work. No access to the drawer. Similarly using "umount /dev/hdc" or "umount /dev/cdrom". The fstab file has this line: /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0 Mandrake is installed on a PentiumII-233M with a WD 3.1G hard drive and a Toshiba 24X ide cd-rom. /dev/hda3 has about 1.2G of space with 50% free. Thanks for help geneps
