Hello:
I have RH 6.0 running on a multi-processor system. I am using the INTEL
install. I also have 4 NEC Cdroms in a attached SCSI Box. After install I
noticed that all four Cdroms were identified on with scsi id's 1 through 4
in /var/log. The kernel messages appear as so:
kernel: Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
kernel: (scsi0:0::2:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15.
kernel: Vendor: NEC Model: CD-ROM DRIVE:463 Rev: 1.05
kernel: Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision :02
Well this repeats 4 times with the changes being sr1, sr2, sr3 and the scsi
id numbers to 2,3, and finally 4. I have SCSI HD set at id 0. I was able to
install RH 6.0 off of scsi Cdrom id 1 though I did not try the others as far
as installation. In fstab I only have one cdrom listed:
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
I can mount the first cdrom with mount /mnt/cdrom. Since I could not mount
the other 3 I tried adding them to fstab in this way:
/dev/cdrom /mnt/scd0 iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
/dev/scd1 /mnt/scd1 iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
/dev/scd2 /mnt/scd2 iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
/dev/scd3 /mnt/scd3 iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
Well with this setup I can mount my first cdrom. When I try to mount the
others I get the error message that the mount point was not found. The
light blinks momentarily on all the cdroms when each is tried to be mounted
with a CD in place. The setup I am trying to establish is a server that will
run a lan of win95 to 98 machines and also dialup to establish an internet
connection so the machines can have lan access. The Cdroms will be all
running cd's of course to allow for independant download for the lanned
machines. I am thinking of using Autofs for this purpose. But my thinking is
that I must be about to mount each of these cdroms indepentantley to be able
to allow ftp access for the lan win95/98 machines. Does anyone have any
suggestions as how to mount these devices or how to list them in fstab to
allow mounting? And a good way to allow lan win 95/98 machines to have
access to the cd's via ftp? I am setting this up for a local independant
school that has little or no funding for tech support so I volunteered to
set this up. But I am running into complications that I don't normally see
on my ISP as far as file system transfer. I don't particularly like the
multiple cdrom setup but it should work but I am at a loss yet to find the
right way.
Thanks in Advance,
Eddie Strohmier
Bonwell Globalnet Inc.
www.bonwell.com
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