Congrats. I usually find as well that writing it down helps to figure out the problem. :)
Thanks for the info about the DVD ROM, as I'm shopping around for one now. John Hebert > -----Original Message----- > From: Douglas Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 6:45 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [brluglist] any help if possible > > > 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. > ================================================ > ================================================ 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. ================================================
