I'm running mandrake. My boot cd broke. I have a SCSI CDread-writer that I'm using. It is labeled cdrom2. I tried to use this in the install software under software management. For some reason it doesn't work. I tried to add the drive and that didn't work either. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
You are going to have to describe your problem a bit more carefully to get real help.
"My boot cd broke." Are you referring here to a CD *drive* (most likely the one that the symlink /dev/cdrom points to) or to a Mandrake Rescue CD? From context, I'm guessing you mean a drive, but I'm not entirely certain of this ... and in any case, you should distinguish between CDs and CD drives clearly.
"For some reason it doesn't work." What *exactly* are you doing and what is the *exact* error that gets reported? "doesn't work" is a very hard problem to troubleshoot.
"It is labeled cdrom2". "Labeled"? Do you mean that there is a symlink /dev/cdrom2 that points to it? If so, what is the actual, underlying device? (First, "ls -l /dev/cdrom2", then "ls -l /dev/something_or_other", replacing "soemething_or_other with whatever the synlink points to.)
"I tried to add the drive and that didn't work either." Add it to what? How? What error message are you prarphrasing as "didn't work either"?
"I have a SCSI CDread-writer that I'm using." Using for what? Have you used this before as a reader, or have you only used it to burn CDs? (I ask this because reading and burning use entirely different methods to access the drive.) For example, does the CD Writer work properly to mount filesystems from the command line? That is, if you put a CD with an iso9660 filesystem in the drive, and (as root) you enter at the command line
mount /dev/cdrom2 /mnt
(or some other mount point if /mnt is already in use), does the CD mount? Can you see its conetents, for example, by entering "ls /mnt" or does it show up in a "df" listing? More basically, are you sure that this drive is really linked to /dev/cdrom2 and not accessed as (for example) /dev/scd0 (typical for SCSI drives)?
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