Hmm.... Ok, mounting stuff under MDK 8.1 isn't nearly as easy as it was
under 8.0, at least not for me but I'll explain what I do on my machine and
with a bit of luck, it will work the same for you. I have three cd-rom drives
in my machine, well, one cd-rom, one dvd-rom, and one cd-rw. Anyway, pull up
a console and login as root. You do this by typing "su" without the " of
course. Hit enter and then type your password. You now should have a root
console.
Next try typing:
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
That may or may not work. It works on mine to mount the cd-rw drive since
it's the primary drive. If that doesn't work, you can try this:
mount /mnt/cdrom
That might work also. You should get a message saying something to the
effect of it's a read only device so it's mounting it read only. If neither
of the above works, then you'll need to determine what device your machine
sees your drive as. I'll let someone else explain how to do that.
The fstab is a file systems tab file. It tells your system which file
systems you have, where they are, and where to mount them. It is located in
the /etc folder. I still haven't gotten mine just right on either machine
that I run Mandrake on. Each one has a different set of problems.
-Gary
On Tuesday 30 October 2001 03:35 pm, you wrote:
> One word "Huh?".
>
> Mounting cd's at the command prompt?
> And what does fstab mean?
>
> I am clueless to all of this. I'm newbie of newbies really.
> I know what the command prompt is but I don't know squat of commands.
> Does linux have a page of command definitions or something I could look up
> and print out?
>
> Sorry
>
> Rob
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gary Traffanstedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 3:11 PM
> Subject: Re: [newbie] Installing new rpms from disks
>
> > I had a similar problem. For me I just needed to manually mount the cd
> > and then it would use it. It ejects the tray, I put the cd in, close the
> > tray
>
> and
>
> > click ok, then it ejects the tray again and repeats the same message. I
> > finally figured out that if I simply mount the cd on the command line
>
> after
>
> > inserting it, but before I click on continue in the dialog prompt, it
>
> would
>
> > take it just fine. Obviously I need to do a bit more work on my fstab!
> > So try manually mounting it after you stick it in and see if that works.
> >
> > -Gary
> >
> > On Tuesday 30 October 2001 02:08 pm, you wrote:
> > > I'm trying to install more programs from disk. I go through the list
> > > it has in the software manager then I select install.
> > > It asks for disk three I put in disk 3 it goes a couple of seconds then
> > > spits it back out. A message pops up saying: Please inster the medium
> > > named "disc 3 Supplementary Applications CD (x86) (cdrom3)" on device
> > > [/dev/cdrom]
> > >
> > > Now I have two cdroms, and I had troubles with the one that pops out in
> > > windows for some reason. I was wondering if there is a way to change
>
> the
>
> > > cdrom it uses?
> > >
> > > I'm lost please help
>
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