On Friday 09 November 2001 11:22 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello > > I am very new to Linux and also to this mailing list. I have a problem > mounting my CDRW/DVD combo. For the time being I only want to mount this > drive so that I can access CDs but would like in the future to be able to > burn CDs as well. I have added to the /etc/fstab file the line > > /dev/hdc1 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 defaults 0 0
You should have /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto user,exec,noauto 0 0 hdc1 implies you have more than 1 partion on the drive which is of course not true. You also have not declared the file system type. auto allows the mounter to discover the file system type automatically. The 'user' argument allows 'non-root' users to mount the drive. The 'noauto' means the drive will not be mounted at boot or when a mount -a command is given. I'm surprised the Mandrake installer did not define this on install. Did you add the drive later? When you come to try burning discs you will probably become confused by the fact that linux can only write to SCSI discs. To mount your Atapi CD-RW as SCSI you need a special set up and the drive has to be defined twice in fstab. Once as ide and once as scsi. Reading old posts in this lists archives will help you. http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ In Mandrake 8.1 CDs are not automatically mounted when you insert a disc (there should be a kernel update soon to fix this) When you insert a disc you must type 'mount /mnt/cdrom' Before a disc can be removed you have to type 'umount /mnt/cdrom' Alternatively right click on the CD icon on the desktop to mount/unmount Or use the kwikdisk utility to mount with a mouse click (kwikdisk will live in the system tray once you have started it) For general advice on setting up your system the mandrakeuser site is great http://www.mandrakeuser.org/index.php > > but each time I attempt to issue the mount command I keep getting an error > notifying me that there is a wrong fs type or too many mounted file > systems. > > Any help in this matter would be much appreciated. > > P.S. if anybody knows how to mount an external USB Iomega Zip drive (100M) > then I would appreciate that also. Check out mandrakeuser > > Thanks in advance.
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