Lawrence Koga wrote:
> Hello, This is what happened. I installed Mandrake 7.0, running dual boot
> with Win95. After the install of Mandrake 7.0, I boot with KDE. I can
> boot and run KDE as XWindow. I can sign up as root, everything seems to
> work. My cd-rom cannot be opened.
>
> When I click on the cd-rom icon, I get an error message that the device
> cannot be opened.
>
> When Linux is loading the cd-rom is found as "hdd". I checked the
> /etc/fstab file and it is mounted, iso=9660. I even tried at boot "Linux
> hdd=cdrom"
/etc/fstab only tells you what you've *configured* to mount - it doesn't tell
you what you actually have mounted.
What does /etc/mtab say?
do this:
cat /etc/mtab > filename.txt
and attach that to your next message to the list.
-Stephen-