On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 06:38:57PM -0800, Bala subramanian wrote: > Hi, > I am having RedHat Linux 6.2 in my machine having > cdrom drive, but I couldn't mount the cdrom, when I > try to mount with the command > > mount /mnt/cdrom > > it is giving error as kernel is not detecting > /dev/cdrom as a device (you might have to run insmod > <dev>) like this the error is comming. >
To have the command "mount /mnt/cdrom", there must be a line in /etc/fstab, something like: /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 defaults,noauto 0 0 Note, there is no device called /dev/cdrom. This is nor- mally a symlink to /dev/hdc or /dev/hdd, which is created by the installation process of most distros. See if you have a device like /dev/modem (ls /dev/modem). In case not it needs to be created for your physical device. Presence of most CDROMs is detected at boot time automati- cally by the kernel at boot time. Do a 'dmesg | less' and check out the device that it is being recognised as. All that is needed is to make a soft link from /dev/modem to the device detected with 'ln -s'. > How I can insert the driver for cdrom??, can anybody > tell me the steps?? > Unlike M$, where all devices need drivers, in Linux most are catered for in the kernel itself. If you have instal- led from a CD, surely your CDROM has been picked up ... By all probabilities no specific driver would be needed. HTH Bish. -- : ####[ Linux One Stanza Tip (LOST) ]########################### Sub : Creating an empty file LOST #200 To quickly create an empty file, use "touch filename" or echo "" > filename ####<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>######################################## : _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
