Bob wrote:
> I can mount my first cd-rom just fine. When I try to mount my cd-rom2
> drive (which is a burner) I get the message that ---cdrom2 is not a
> valid block device. I could mount this device in mdk6.1Any help would
> be appreciated.Thanks in advance. Bob
Bob, you may get some info from this earlier post. Also check /stc/fstab
file to see how cdrom2 is set up. I had the same problem and had to
change the applicable line in fstab to read:
/dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom2 iso9660 defaults 0 0
ie. the way it defaulted to, it did not recognise it as a SCSI setup.
However I believe 7-0-2 would have set up your second cdrom (writer) as
a SCSI device. You only need to view lilo.conf to see the appropriate
command to set it up this way.
Nev
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mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom??? You mount from /dev/something to
something else. Not from /mnt/something.
Rich Andrews wrote:
>
> I as well have just installed mdk7.0-2, but I did not use the
supermount
> option. No matter what I do I can't ls the cdrom. at console, I
mount
> /mnt/cdrom cdrom and I get an error telling me that the drivers aren't
in
> the /dev dir. Arrgh! Plz help.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Neville Cobb
> Sent: February 17, 2000 3:23 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [newbie] CDROM and Writer
>
> Overall I was pretty well impressed with Mandrake 7-0-2, it was one of
> the first distribution where I did not have to spend a couple of hours
> tweaking it to my liking - well done. However there were some minor
> problems:
>
> I was amazed it detected my 40x cdrom drive as an IDE drive and the
> cdrom writer as a SCSI device without me having to compile the kernel.
> However I could not access the writer via the supermount icon mandrake
> placed on the desk top. After playing with kfstab and telling it that
it
> was a SCSI device ie. /dev/scd0, it mounted and I could access it via
> the desktop icon. I hope this was the right way to go about it.
>
> I experienced a little bit of trouble with automatic install in that I
> would have liked to see a picture of where Mandrake was going to load
> the system and I would have also liked to see where it was putting
Lilo.
> But the second time around I used the non auto install and it went
well
> as I could direct and confirm all the above.
>
> This is lots better to drive than SuSE as I had to compile the kernel
to
> achieve what came standard with Mandrake. I also experienced that it
> detected and set up the drives and windows partition better than
Caldera
> (to my surprise as I though it was pretty good).
>
> Nev
