Eddie
You might want to post the exact error, but from the sound of it you need
to create the directories /mnt/scd1 /mnt/scd2 etc.
Now, as a long term solution I think you could do the following.
1. have one cheap cdrom
2. buy lots of cheap ide disk space
3. create an iso image of each cd you want to server, and put the image
on your disks.
4. mount them using the loopback device and expose those to the web.
Te result is a cheaper, simpler solution with better performance, and it
will scale! If you need to add more CDs, worst case you add more cheap
disks. The disks will still be faster than a scsi cdrom.
When they want to add a cd, tell them to stick it in the drive, you telnet
in to run a script to create the image and mount it(or make it web based).
charles
On Sun, 19 Dec 1999, Eddie Strohmier wrote:
> 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:
>
> 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.
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