Re: [newbie] Unable to access cdrom or floppy

2000-03-28 Thread Jon
Bruce Hilliker wrote: > Jon; > > Hate to tell ya, but that doesn't work. Once I've followed you instructions and > click on my newly made cd icon; I get the following message: > > KFM error - could not mount > mount: can't find /dev/sr0 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab > > There's something wr

Re: [newbie] Unable to access cdrom or floppy

2000-03-24 Thread Bruce Hilliker
Peter; I'm getting the same error messages. The way I got around it was to create two new folders under "/mnt". I probably should have used the originals "cdrom2 and floppy", but; I'm new to linux and didn't want to screw anything up. Anyways, I created "cdrw" and "afloppy", then; mount /dev/f

[newbie] Unable to access cdrom or floppy

2000-03-23 Thread Peter H. Hackett
When I try to access the cdrom or floppy from either command line or desktop, I get an error such as : /mnt/floppy: Input/output error (same goes for cdrom). They both show as mounted and are in the fstab, but I'm at a loss. Any Ideas?? Thanks... _ Peter H. Hac