Re: Back Again - CDRom

1999-07-17 Thread Kent West
> Artur Correia wrote:
> 
> OK,
> As expected, ran into some more problems:
> #1. How the hell do i see the contents of a cdrom? I've tried in the
> shell mount /dev/hdb and mount /dev/cdrom, but i got a message saying
> that that file was not in the file fstab or mtab... and, in fact, it
> isn't. The starnge part is tha if i run dselect with the cd rom with
> the debian distribution the program accesses the cd and install all
> the packages from it? So, what do i do?
> Desperately waiting for a solution,
> AC
> Tks

I believe you might need a more complete mount command, such as:

  mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb /cdrom

and that you'll probably have to mount it as root (unless you do some
other configuration stuff to allow normal users to mount it). The
"/cdrom" part can be any existing directory, such as "/mnt" or
"/my_cd_drive", but it must be a directory and it must exist prior to
this command. (Sorry if this is "I already know all that stuff"
language.)

Also, most newer computers would have the CD-ROM drive on /dev/hdc
(first drive on the second IDE port) rather than /dev/hdb (second drive
on the first IDE port), so that might be an issue.

Again, sorry if you already know this stuff and I'm just spouting noise.


Re: Back Again - CDRom

1999-07-17 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 17 Jul, Artur Correia wrote about "Back Again - CDRom"
> OK, 
> As expected, ran into some more problems:
> #1. How the hell do i see the contents of a cdrom? I've tried in the shell 
> mount /dev/hdb and mount /dev/cdrom, but i got a message saying that that 
> file was not in the file fstab or mtab... and, in fact, it isn't. The starnge 
> part is tha if i run dselect with the cd rom with the debian distribution the 
> program accesses the cd and install all the packages from it? So, what do i 
> do?
> Desperately waiting for a solution,
> AC
> Tks

To use the basic 'mount /dev/hdb' you have to have an entry in the fstab
file that gives all the parameters needed to mount the fs.  To do it on
the command line without an entry in the fstab you need to give the
fstype the device  and the mount point as a minimum. See the man page
for mouunt.

mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb /cdrom

If you want to just issue 'mount /dev/hdb' then you will need something
like the following in /etc/fstab, see the man page for fstab and mount.

/dev/hdb  /cdrom  iso9660  noauto,user,ro


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Re: Back Again - CDRom

1999-07-17 Thread Leen Besselink


On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, Artur Correia wrote:

> OK, 
> As expected, ran into some more problems:
> #1. How the hell do i see the contents of a cdrom? I've tried in the shell 
> mount /dev/hdb and mount /dev/cdrom, but i got a message saying that that 
> file was not in the file fstab or mtab... and, in fact, it isn't. The starnge 
> part is tha if i run dselect with the cd rom with the debian distribution the 
> program accesses the cd and install all the packages from it? So, what do i 
> do?
> Desperately waiting for a solution,
> AC
> Tks
> 

"mount [-fnrsvw] [-t vfstype] [-o options] device dir"
-- from the mount manpage.

  did you see this:   ^^^
you need to have an entry for that in the /etc/fstab file
or you need to specify the mountpoint, which is just an empthy dir.

did I make sense to you ?

also, try reading the whole man page, I also think there is a manpage
about fstab.

Hope this helps... it should :)


Re: Back Again - CDRom

1999-07-17 Thread Michael Merten
On Sat, Jul 17, 1999 at 04:01:23PM +0100, Artur Correia wrote:
> OK, 
> As expected, ran into some more problems:
> #1. How the hell do i see the contents of a cdrom? I've tried in the shell 
> mount /dev/hdb and mount /dev/cdrom, but i got a message saying that that 
> file was not in the file fstab or mtab... and, in fact, it isn't. The starnge 
> part is tha if i run dselect with the cd rom with the debian distribution the 
> program accesses the cd and install all the packages from it? So, what do i 
> do?
> Desperately waiting for a solution,
> AC
> Tks

You could try:

   mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb /cdrom

You could also add the following line to your /etc/fstab file:

   /dev/hdb   /cdromiso9660 defaults,ro,noauto,user0  0

That way, simply typing 'mount /cdrom' would work.

(The above examples assume /dev/hdb *is* your cdrom.  If it ain't, edit
appropriately)

HTH,
Mike

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Back Again - CDRom

1999-07-17 Thread Artur Correia




OK, 
As expected, ran into some more 
problems:
#1. How the hell do i see the contents of a 
cdrom? I've tried in the shell mount /dev/hdb and mount /dev/cdrom, but i got a 
message saying that that file was not in the file fstab or mtab... and, in fact, 
it isn't. The starnge part is tha if i run dselect with the cd rom with the 
debian distribution the program accesses the cd and install all the packages 
from it? So, what do i do?
Desperately waiting for a solution,
AC
Tks