Chris,
Unless you have some sort of esoteric hardware setup, the following script
has always worked for me (I use it for some system automation/monitoring tasks)
[ ! -d /mnt/cdrom ] && mkdir -p /mnt/cdrom; if [ -d /mnt/cdrom ]; then
mount /dev/$(find /proc/{ide,scsi} -type d -exec grep -r ^cdrom$ {} \; |
sort -u | head -1 | awk -F/ '{print $4}') /mnt/cdrom; else echo "Mountpoint
/mnt/cdrom does not exist."; fi
Hope you find it useful, otherwise I'll suggest to verify the proper
modules are configured on your kernel.
Regards,
-Urivan Flores
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On Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:04:55 PST David Brown wrote:
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 01:26:18PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I know this CD/DVD drive works because it boots a Ubuntu Live CD when
>I power cycle.
That's the BIOS doing the boot.
>BUT....when I'm in my normal Ubuntu installation, I can't mount the dumb thing.
Look through 'dmesg' and see if you can figure out what it is getting
called.
Also, check for a /dev/cdrom or something like that. There is usually a
symlink to whatever the real cdrom is.
David
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