Re: [newbie] Accessing Floppy / CDROM Disks
It umount not unmount for unmounting of device. -Original Message- From: Michael Chopek [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 09 August 1999 13:46 Subject: Re: [newbie] Accessing Floppy / CDROM Disks Hi folks; At 08:45 AM 8/9/99 -0600, you wrote: type mount /mnt/cdrom or mount /mnt/floppy I did this last night and it seemed to work fine for me... you will need to unmount them before you can eject them, type umount /mnt/whatever ...but then I could not get the CD out of the drive no how... When I tried to use.. unmount /mnt/cdrom I would get a message back from BASH saying something like.. "unknown command - unmount" I tried as both user and SU, and could not get the CD to open... :-/ If I tried to click on the desktop icon, and right click to unmount.. it said "device is busy" or some such error. What am I doing wrongas I eventually wound up rebooting and then pulling the CD out when it started...not good for the penguin..I'm sure. - thanks for your time - -- best regards -michael Michael Chopek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Down to Earth Development Ltd - http://www.d2earth.com/ Website Web Applications Development Extropia Developers Network - http://www.extropia.com/
Re: [newbie] Accessing Floppy / CDROM Disks
type mount /mnt/cdrom or mount /mnt/floppy you will need to unmount them before you can eject them, type umount /mnt/whatever On Mon, 9 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I know this may sound really dumb but I cannot find anywhere how to access a floppy or cdrom disk. I have both "Floppy" and "CDROM" listed in the "Mount" directory, but if I try to go into the directory and do an "ls", I get nothing. I know I must be doing something really wrong, but I don't know what it is.
Re: [newbie] Accessing Floppy / CDROM Disks
Hi folks; At 08:45 AM 8/9/99 -0600, you wrote: type mount /mnt/cdrom or mount /mnt/floppy I did this last night and it seemed to work fine for me... you will need to unmount them before you can eject them, type umount /mnt/whatever ...but then I could not get the CD out of the drive no how... When I tried to use.. unmount /mnt/cdrom I would get a message back from BASH saying something like.. "unknown command - unmount" I tried as both user and SU, and could not get the CD to open... :-/ If I tried to click on the desktop icon, and right click to unmount.. it said "device is busy" or some such error. What am I doing wrongas I eventually wound up rebooting and then pulling the CD out when it started...not good for the penguin..I'm sure. - thanks for your time - -- best regards -michael Michael Chopek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Down to Earth Development Ltd - http://www.d2earth.com/ Website Web Applications Development Extropia Developers Network - http://www.extropia.com/
Re: [newbie] Accessing Floppy / CDROM Disks
Michael Chopek wrote: unmount /mnt/cdrom It's umount, not unmount (the first n doesn't belong there). -- Dan Brown, KE6MKS, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup.
Re: [newbie] Accessing Floppy / CDROM Disks
On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Michael Chopek wrote: Hi folks; At 08:45 AM 8/9/99 -0600, you wrote: type mount /mnt/cdrom or mount /mnt/floppy I did this last night and it seemed to work fine for me... you will need to unmount them before you can eject them, type umount /mnt/whatever ...but then I could not get the CD out of the drive no how... When I tried to use.. unmount /mnt/cdrom I would get a message back from BASH saying something like.. "unknown command - unmount" I tried as both user and SU, and could not get the CD to open... :-/ If I tried to click on the desktop icon, and right click to unmount.. it said "device is busy" or some such error. What am I doing wrongas I eventually wound up rebooting and then pulling the CD out when it started...not good for the penguin..I'm sure. Not unmount, umount no N.. you also need to not be within the /mnt/cdrom tree or accessing any of it's files, so do a 'cd' with no options and you should return to your homedir ~ - thanks for your time - -- best regards -michael Michael Chopek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Down to Earth Development Ltd - http://www.d2earth.com/ Website Web Applications Development Extropia Developers Network - http://www.extropia.com/
RE: [newbie] Accessing Floppy / CDROM Disks
umount - not unmount -Original Message- From: Michael Chopek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 09, 1999 11:43 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Accessing Floppy / CDROM Disks Hi folks; At 08:45 AM 8/9/99 -0600, you wrote: type mount /mnt/cdrom or mount /mnt/floppy I did this last night and it seemed to work fine for me... you will need to unmount them before you can eject them, type umount /mnt/whatever ...but then I could not get the CD out of the drive no how... When I tried to use.. unmount /mnt/cdrom I would get a message back from BASH saying something like.. "unknown command - unmount" I tried as both user and SU, and could not get the CD to open... :-/ If I tried to click on the desktop icon, and right click to unmount.. it said "device is busy" or some such error. What am I doing wrongas I eventually wound up rebooting and then pulling the CD out when it started...not good for the penguin..I'm sure. - thanks for your time - -- best regards -michael Michael Chopek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Down to Earth Development Ltd - http://www.d2earth.com/ Website Web Applications Development Extropia Developers Network - http://www.extropia.com/
Re: [newbie] Accessing Floppy / CDROM Disks
On 09-Aug-99 Michael Chopek wrote: you will need to unmount them before you can eject them, type umount /mnt/whatever ...but then I could not get the CD out of the drive no how... The drive won't eject while the CD is mounted. When I tried to use.. unmount /mnt/cdrom I would get a message back from BASH saying something like.. "unknown command - unmount" The command is umount, not unmount. No n. :) I tried as both user and SU, and could not get the CD to open... :-/ If I tried to click on the desktop icon, and right click to unmount.. it said "device is busy" or some such error. What am I doing wrongas I eventually wound up rebooting and then pulling the CD out when it started...not good for the penguin..I'm sure. If you're getting 'device is busy', make sure there's nothing accessing the drive you're trying to unmount. Usually when I get that message, it's because I'm currently in the directory the device is mounted under in one of my consoles or xterms--just cd to a different directory in that case. -Tom
Re: [newbie] Accessing Floppy / CDROM Disks
Michael Chopek wrote: unmount /mnt/cdrom At 10:31 AM 8/9/99 -0700, Dan Brown wrote: It's umount, not unmount (the first n doesn't belong there). Doe! I even went back and looked at this thread...its "umount" there and I missed again..anyhow, thanks Dan Axalon for the help. I'm expecting my cable man tomorrow :) as I'm another smuck with a Winbloze Modem.. ;-/ Anything (besides not mentioning I have Linux on this box as well g) I should know, tips etc... so that when he leaves I can configure Linux to use the cable modem? - thanks - -- best regards -michael Michael Chopek [EMAIL PROTECTED] Down to Earth Development Ltd - http://www.d2earth.com/ Website Web Applications Development Extropia Developers Network - http://www.extropia.com/
RE: [newbie] Accessing Floppy / CDROM Disks
This has to do with disk caching. What you read and work with is stored in RAM. Linux writes it back to the disk when it is convenient to do so. It shouldn't affect a cdrom, which is read only, but can cause problems for a floppy if you remove it from the drive before Linux has a chance to write back any changes you may have made. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Neilesh Patel Sent: Monday, August 09, 1999 11:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Accessing Floppy / CDROM Disks why do you have to unmount the filesystem before taking the CD or floppy out? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Thomas J. Hamman Sent: Monday, August 09, 1999 9:15 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] Accessing Floppy / CDROM Disks On 09-Aug-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I know this may sound really dumb but I cannot find anywhere how to access a floppy or cdrom disk. I have both "Floppy" and "CDROM" listed in the "Mount" directory, but if I try to go into the directory and do an "ls", I get nothing. I know I must be doing something really wrong, but I don't know what it is. In Linux you have to mount the drive first. You mount the drive once the disk/CD is in, then always unmount before you take the disk/CD out. A typical mount command looks like this: mount -t filesystem device mount-directory e.g. mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy would mount the fd0 device (that's the first floppy drive), in the /mnt/floppy directory, assuming the disk in the drive has a Linux ext2 filesystem. (Usually though with floppy and CD drives you can use 'auto' as the file system, and mount will detect which filesystem the disk/CD is using.) IMPORTANT: Before taking the disk out of the drive in that example, you'd want to type 'umount /mnt/floppy' (you can omit the device and filesystem from the umount command) to unmount the disk. Now, there's a file in the /etc directory called fstab which holds configuration information for your mountable drives. Assuming you have just one floppy drive and one CDROM drive, you probably already have proper settings for your drives in fstab, which means in the mount command you can omit the filesystem option and either the device or directory options, because mount can get the rest of the needed info from /etc/fstab. So you can probably just type: mount /mnt/floppy(or mount /dev/fd0) to mount a floppy disk, and: mount /mnt/cdrom (or mount /dev/cdrom) to mount a CD. -Tom
