Re: [newbie] mandrake 9.0

[aaron]

Derek Jennings wrote:

On Wednesday 30 Oct 2002 8:35 am, aaron wrote:

Derek Jennings wrote:

On Wednesday 30 Oct 2002 5:50 am, aaron wrote:

Hi I just finished installing mandrake 9.0 and am a bit bewildered.
I look at /mnt/cdrom and in konqueror I see a lock on the icon. My scsi
cdrom drive also has a lock on it. I can't access the drive from the
command line. I can't chmod I can't chown. I have one cddrive with no
lock on it but the disc shows all the content locked????
I am guessing this is due to the supermount but don't see any
documentation on this.

Is there a CD in the drive?
(Not an audio CD, as that is not a file system and cannot be browsed.)

derek

You bet and I tried a few. I had just deleted debian (too much bother at
this stage in my life)
they worked fine then. In mandrake 8 all was fine. I am seeing a picture
of a lock on the icons and also on the contents on the inserted cd of
the one drive that doesn't have the lock!!!!

thanks

Sorry if it seemed a dumb thing to ask, but you would be surprised how many people have asked that question without having a data CD in the drive :)

Maybe your /etc/fstab file is incorrect. Here is what mine looks like :-
none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umas
k=0 0 0

(Note I am using scsi emulation that is why it is /dev/scd0 instead of /dev/hdc)

If you are not using supermount, then of course the CD has to be mounted before use. If you are using supermount, any attempt to mount the CD will just screw up supermount.

derek



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I looked in the archives and I guessed that the problem was related to the supermount issue. I have a strong feeling I should just remove it. I have no problem with mounting drives.
i am currently on my windows partition. (no internet in lin yet)
I will reboot and try this out and let you know.
Thanks

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