B.S wrote: > Ok so here is my Problem. I install my gentoo box with a stage3. > Installing system with a "CDburner/dvdreader" drive. Down the road i > decide to put in a DVD-Burner. Swaping the physical drives out with out > changing any thing. My question is can i change the entry in the fstab > and symbolic links to point to a DVD device and not a cdrom so as to be > able to use DVDrip and some other dvd options "mplayer" "xine"? > > I have googled this alot and searched the forumn but most are to add a > dvd drive to a already equipt cdburner or just cd system? > > Below are a few outputs > > ls - la /mnt/cdrom > > drwx------ 2 root root 4096 Jun 7 18:20 . > drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 4096 Jun 7 18:24 .. > -rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Apr 22 03:58 .keep > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 229 Jun 7 18:20 CD-ROM Device > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Feb 14 16:07 cdrom -> /dev/cdrom/ > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8 May 13 19:25 hdd -> /dev/hdd > > > ls -la /dev/hdd > lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 30 Jun 25 20:24 /dev/hdd -> > ide/host0/bus1/target1/lun0/cd > > > ls -la /dev/dvd > lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 3 Jun 25 20:24 /dev/dvd -> hdd > > > /etc/fstab > NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to > opts. > /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime > 1 1 > /dev/hda5 / ext3 noatime > 0 0 > /dev/hda6 none swap sw > 0 0 > /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro,users > 0 0 > /dev/hdd /mnt/dvd iso9660 noauto,ro,users > 0 0 > /dev/hde6 /usr/portage ext3 noatime > 0 0 > /dev/hdc2 /home ext3 noatime > 0 0 > /dev/hde5 /tmp ext3 noatime > 0 0 > /dev/hdc1 /mnt/store ext3 noatime > 0 0 > /dev/hdf1 /mnt/extra ext3 noatime > 0 0 > /dev/hdf5 /mnt/closet ext3 noatime > 0 0 > #/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto > 0 0 >
It seems u misunderstood some things completely :-). Symlink from /mnt dir to a node seems crazy for me. On unix/linux system "/mnt" directory (usually) contains "mount points", i.e. empty directories (but not symlinks to nodes) to which u can mount filesystems accessible via "node" files from /dev dir. RTFM mount. Try this: # rm /mnt/cdrom # mkdir /mnt/cdrom # mount /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom To your question: "... can i change the entry in the fstab and symbolic links to point to a DVD device and not a cdrom ..." Yes, u can change symlink to DVD, but (usually) it's not necessary to modify /etc/fstab, but if u like to use it (read files), u have to mount it ... HTH noro -- [email protected] mailing list
