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-


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