Here is a trick; Type the following command;
ls -l /dev/cd* [1] note the output On my machine I have listed /dev/cdrom0 and /dev/cdrom1 Issue the following command; eject /dev/cdrom<whatever> The cdrom tray of one of your cdrom drives should open. You will now be able to figure which device name refers to which CD drive. If you have a standard Mandrake install you should be running the supermount utility. This utility, if it is working, will detect when a CD is placed in the drive and create an icon on your desktop. I am still not sure why you are having trouble. The mandrake sorftware installer remembers where it installed stuff from last time, so if you installed from from the CD drive before, the installer should just take up where it left off. Cheers Ross Drummond [1] Do not get confused by the difference between a /dev/hd* and a /dev/cdrom* . In this instance they probably refer to the the same device. On Sun, 11 Sep 2005 22:55, Steve Holdoway wrote: > OK, you say it's on a separate cable, then it's almost certainly either > /dev/hdc or /dev/hdd. So try, logged in as root in a bash session... > > mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/hdc /mnt > mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/hdd /mnt > df > > Can you show the result? If the cd is working, and connected on the > secondary ide channel, then one of the above mount commands should have > mounted the cd at /mnt. > > Cheers, > > Steve
