On Sunday 03 June 2001 10:24, Eric Lauritzen wrote:
> I have Mandrake 8.0 installed. I installed from the CDs and booted
> from floppy.
> But now that I'm running Mandrake, I can't seem to mount any of my
> two CD drives or my floppy drive.
> But I keep getting the error:
> mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device
> but /dev/cdrom shows up under KDE > Information > block devices
> Could someone help me figure this out?
Eric, does /dev/cdrom point to /dev/hd<something> like this?
[john@localhost john]$ ls -l /dev/cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 May 30 21:31 /dev/cdrom -> hdc
[john@localhost john]$ ls -l /dev/hdc
brw------- 1 john cdrom 22, 0 Apr 14 21:06 /dev/hdc
[john@localhost john]$
You know you have to have a disk in when you mount it, or you will
get that error. Also, the disk must have stuff on it. Does /dev/cdrom point
to the right hd<something>. I presume the CDROM is an IDE drive?
I can't comment on the floppy, I haven't even tried to use mine from
Linux.
John
