Okay, I figured it out, well, at least part of it. I initially didn't investigate as far as I should have. /media/cdrom was pointing to /dev/cdrom. Everything seemed just fine. But upon checking out /dev/cdrom, it was pointing at /dev/hdc. That's my dvd drive. So, /media/dvd and /media/cdrom were both pointing at the dvd. Why the dvd doesn't work, I don't know, but it is a cheap one that gives me problems in the first place anyway, I'm not too worried about that. Why Suse decided to suddenly start pointing the link to my cd-rom to my dvd-rom, I have no clue and this is gonna puzzle me for a long time.
But, the good news is that I pointed everything in the right direction and it's working fine. In a related note, I would suggest against anyone buying a RAITE dvd-rom. It's a cheap piece of trash in my opinion. Cordially, Douglas Adams p.s. Sorry about filling up your inbox with a conversation between me and...........myself. :-) p.p.s. Shawn, you have Suse 7.2. It has a newer version of the kernel and all types of other newer things also packaged in with it. On Thursday 10 January 2002 04:01, you wrote: > I normally try and figure things out myself, but I've failed to understand > what's going on in this instance. I can't mount my cd-rom, nor my dvd-rom. > I'm running Suse 7.2. I know the drives are working because Yast2 has no > problem installing software from the installation disks. And I know I > could mount them before, because I've played starcraft through wine, and > i've installed .rpm's from several cd's before. > > When I type mount /media/cdrom or mount /media/dvd (that's where suse puts > it /mnt is completely empty), I get the message "mount: No medium found". > OK, so after looking at fstab and all that nice stuff and not seeing the > problem, I decided to reinstall, just in case there was something I messed > up I shouldn't have, because after all, when I first installed, my drives > were working fine. Plus it gave me a reason to repartition my hard drive > like I should have in the first place. Well, reinstall went great, until > of course I tried to mount my drives. No dice, didn't work. The symlinks > all seem to be pointing in the right places, I just don't understand. I've > tried running as root. I've tried it at every run level possible. Looked > at my fstab. And a plethora of other things Pepe. > > If anyone can shine any type of light on my situation, even if it's one of > those cheap lights that come on keychains, I'd appreciate it. Thanks for > the help ahead of time. > > P.S. I enjoyed the meeting at Brewbacher's. And thanks everyone for the > reply to my last e-mail. > > > ================================================ > BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group > Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. > Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change > your subscription information. > ================================================ ================================================ BRLUG - The Baton Rouge Linux User Group Visit http://www.brlug.net for more information. Send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change your subscription information. ================================================
