Dennis Myers wrote:
"John T. Seebold" wrote:
My fstab file...
#
# The 26 GB Diamond Maxtor Super Drive.
/dev/hdb1/ ext2defaults 1 1
/dev/hdb5/home ext2defaults 1 2
/dev/hdb7/usrext2defaults 1 1
/dev/hdb6noneswapdefaults 1 2
# The shitty little 4 GB Western Digital.
/dev/hdc1/mnt/scratchext2defaults 1 2
# Some other shit I have no clue about.
none/dev/pts devpts mode=06200 0
none/procprocdefaults 0 0
# An Attempt at mounting the DVD drive and the CD Burner.
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom autonoauto,ro,user 0 0
/dev/cdburner /mnt/cdburnerautonoauto,ro,user 0 0
# The floppy drives, 3.5" and the 5.25".
/dev/floppy /mnt/floppy autonoauto,user 0 0
/dev/floppy2/mnt/floppy2 autonoauto,user 0 0
#
So I tried a few entries at the command line...
[root@zoey /etc]# mount -a
[root@zoey /etc]# mount /dev/cdrom
mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device
[root@zoey /etc]# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device
[root@zoey /etc]# mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device
[root@zoey /etc]# mount /dev/cdburner /mnt/cdburner
mount: /dev/cdburner is not a valid block device
[root@zoey /etc]# arg!
bash: arg!: command not found
[root@zoey /etc]#
And still I can't get the damn things mounted. The hard drives are as
autodetected... and I *did* install off the Mandrake cd... I just can't
remount the bloody drives.
Of (perhaps) importance:
/dev/cdburner is quite obviously a cdburner.
/dev/cdrom is no quite so obviously a dvd-rom drive.
Please help,
Thank you,
John
Hi, try something like:
mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt
ormount -r /dev/cdrom /mnt
The -r for read only. As I understand it you get an error back about
not a valid block device . Mayhap without the final "cdrom" or "cdburner"
They might come on line. The -r gives you read only so that probably
isn't an option. This might be obvious but there should be a space
between mount and the rest of the line. I hope none of this is to
obviously newbie, but I am obviously a newbie and don't know " twice
around a burnt bisquit " as my dear Mother used to say. The info above is
out of one of the books I've been reading. Hope something works soon, you
are sounding frustrated.
Also, is it SCSI or IDE if IDE see the Linux - Mandrake webpages tutorial
on CD burners. Looks like trouble to me. Still hoping something in all this
helps you. Dennis
