Philomena....no. The fstab file is only concerned with mounting
file systems. A cd, a cdr, and a cdrw are the same thing as far
as the fstab entry is concerned. It's only the burning software
that needs to know about cdr's and cdrw's and they scan the
drives and figure this out for themselves.
Alan
Philomena wrote:
>
> Hi Alan,
>
> Thanks, I'll check that out when I get home.
>
> I just realized something I should have mentioned when describing my problems with
>the CDROM drive - its a CD-RW drive - does that require something additional in the
>fstab file ?
>
> On Wed, 26 April 2000, Alan Shoemaker wrote:
>
> >
> > philomena....as of version 7, setup is no longer installed by
> > default. I believe it's still on the installation cd, but I
> > don't remember which package it's in.
> >
> > Alan
> >
> >
> > philomena wrote:
> > >
> > > Paul,
> > >
> > > what/where is "setup" ? I tried executing the command from the console and
> > > its not found. I searched all drives and didn't find anything.
> > > I reinstalled and made sure to leave supermount on - so, my fstab entries
> > > are exactly like yours, but the devices are still not working. Error message
> > > is a bit different - KFM says something like "can't display directory", and
> > > if I try to command line ls, an error message states there is an
> > > input/output error.
> > >
> > > Thx,
> > > philomena
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 12:59 AM
> > > Subject: Re: [newbie] basic sound, floppy and CDROM problems
> > >
> > > > On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, root wrote:
> > > >
> > > > >time, IDed all the available memory - everything seems fine so far except
> > > the
> > > > >three basic things - sound. floppy drive and CDROM drive
> > > > >My sound card was correctly identified, but any sounds come out as
> > > tones - no
> > > > >bells, roars, crashing windows - just flat tones. The card is an SB
> > > Live!.
> > > >
> > > > run "setup" as root, and check the 'sound' section. I have an SB Value64
> > > > and that was initially off too. After going through this by hand it worked
> > > > fine.
> > > >
> > > > >Neither the floppy nor the CDROM drive will mount - any attempt comes
> > > back with
> > > > >the error msg like (for the floppy) "mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block
> > > > >device"
> > > >
> > > > What is in your /etc/fstab.
> > > > For floppy and cdrom with me it says:
> > > >
> > > > /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0
> > > > /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
> > > >
> > > > Does that match?
> > > >
> > > > Paul
> > > >
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