On Tue, Apr 06, 1999 at 07:15:53PM -0700, Linda & Mike wrote:
> Today I tried to mount our cdrom drive. Here is the error it gave me:
>
> Could not mount
> file:/dev/cdrom and then something else that said something like this with
> a bunch of symbols in between each word: Input/output error Amount... ou
> must specify the file system type.
>
> What does this mean? I just recently found out that our home user accounts
> had been put into the wrong partition by my brother-in-law when he
> installed Mandrake 5.3 for us, so over the phone from San Francisco he had
> us move all the directories to another location. Now, I guess, the cdrom
> did not go with everything else.
Mandrake has made checking this a bit more difficult than normal since
they've used a hard link between the actual CDROM device and the /dev/cdrom
entry, but it's easy to fix up.
What device is your CDROM? (hda, hdb, hdc, hdd) Change to the /dev
directory (cd /dev) and remove the existing cdrom file (rm cdrom). Insert
the cdrom device name (hda, hdb, etc) into this command 'ln -s /dev/<device>
/dev/cdrom'.
That should fix up the devices part.
To fix up the mounting part, make sure that your /etc/fstab entry looks
something like this for the CDROM:
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0
0
The mail software will probably wrap that line because of the length, but it
should all be on one line in /etc/fstab.
That should fix it up!
Good luck!
--
Steve Philp
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