On Mon, April 3, 2006 12:15 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Monday 03 April 2006 09:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> On Mon, April 3, 2006 10:41 am, Michael Fox wrote: >> >>> On 4/3/06, Voytek Eymont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> # mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/cdrom >> mount: /dev/sda3 is not a valid block device >> > > It can be much more tricky than this thread leads you to suspect: well, the results I'm getting made me suspect it, ;>) > The easy way: Never do that (install on IDE the use SCSI) > Another one: Boot knoppix and spelunk (find out which modules are used, > what device the CDROM is) > > 1) You need to ensure the modules needed for SCSI CDROM are loaded > From dim memory sd and/or sr look in your /lib/modules/<version> > 2) ID which device the CDROM is > 3) For fun: symlink /dev/cdrom-device /dev/cdrom > 4) Put an (auto)mount line in /etc/fstab > If everything is correct, but the module is not loaded, you will get > error messages. James but, one of the commands worked... not sure which one, though... I briefly saw dir listing of the CD... before I unmounted it... (finger quicker than eye thing) I guess I might need to repeat last 150 'mount' commands -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
