i am using redhat 7.2 and kde and when i try to mount the cdrom within kde it gives the error message that "/dev/cdrom is not a valid block device". using kde terminal window i tried running "su" and entering the root password, then i run the command "mount -t iso9660 /dev/hda /mnt/cdrom and it gives me the exact same error message.
however when i change the runlevel from 5 to 3 in inittab, and then run the exact same command as above, the cdrom is mounted and i can access it. am i using te mount command the wrong way?, and why does it sometimes work? i also read somewhere that the ide devices are named in the following way: primary master on 1st ide controller = /dev/hda primary slave on 1st ide controller = /dev/hdb secondary master 2nd ide = dev/hdd secondary slave 2nd ide = dev/hdc however, i have two hard drives connected as primary master and primary slave on the 1st ide controller. the first hdd is a windows98 fat32 partition and it is called /dev/hdc1 in linux while my second hard drive is the linux one, and it is called /dev/hdd1(boot), /dev/hdd2(swap) and /dev/hdd3(root), while my 2 cdroms are /dev/hda and /dev/hdb. is this wrong ? and could this be why i cannot mount the cdrom while using X? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
