On Sunday 28 January 2001 03:45, you wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I installed ML7.2 on a PIII box. The opted to install as a developer
> machine. Everything went of smoothly.
>
> However when I try to access a CD either by clicking on the CD-ROM icon on
> the KDE desktop or by doing a "ls /mnt/cdrom" it says that there is an I/O
> error.
>
> I looked at the mtab file and it had the following line:
>
> /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount rw,fs=iso9660 dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
>
> I tried removing that line, hoping to mount the cdrom manually later.
> However when I rebooted the machine, the line was back in the /etc/mtab
> file.
>
> Like the CD-RW drive (that is what I have), I am unable to access the
> floppy drive as well.
>
> Can some one please help me fix this problem....
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Surya
Fortunately you removed from /etc/mtab instead of /etc/fstab
do this from a command line--as root
# rm /dev/cdrom* -f
# ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom
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