Hi all,

On Montag, 12. Januar 2004 05:32, Sudev Barar wrote:

> Could you do us all a favour by writing the whole procedure in one post.
> Will be helpful to me and to lot many who would troll the archives later
> on?

Sure.

I set up a workstation to run a local app, which needs the local CD-ROM
drive (Giantdisc: http://www.giantdisc.com).

The initial problem was that although the workstation loaded the ide-cd
module, there were no devices /dev/hd[a,b,c,d] to mount. I thought they
would be created automatically by loading the module, but that was wrong.

Anselm Martin Hoffmeister (thanks again!) then gave me the advice to
create the devices manually using mknod (see manpage for details) and
provided the following example:

> Try creating /dev/hda etc. with mknod (man mknod). You will probably use
> it like this:
>     mknod /dev/hda b 3 0
>     mknod /dev/hdb b 3 64
>     mknod /dev/hdc b 22 0
>     mknod /dev/hdd b 22 64

He also showed me how to mount the CD-ROM:

> and then
>     mkdir /cdrom
>     mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom -o ro
> should work, in case your CD-ROM-Drive is secondary master.

However, there was a small mistake in the above because the mkdir command
will not work. This is because the root filesystem of the client, which is
where the /cdrom directory is supposed to be created, is mounted read-only
by the client (because it's shared among several clients). So trying to
mkdir from the client will fail.

The "solution" was to create the directory on the server. That way, all
clients see the /cdrom directory, and the special client with the local
app can mount its CD-ROM.

That was it. I now have a local app which can access the local CD-ROM
drive in the client.

Greetings,

Sebastian



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