Re: FIXED! [expert] access to CD-RW

2002-05-12 Thread Brian Schroeder
dd should be able to read the raw partition, I would have though. >From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Brian Schroeder said onto me: > | Would dd successfully copy an unmounted windows partition to a new >hd? > >Doesn't a partition need to be mounted for one to be able to access it at

Re: FIXED! [expert] access to CD-RW

2002-05-12 Thread David
Brian Schroeder said onto me: | Would dd successfully copy an unmounted windows partition to a new hd? Doesn't a partition need to be mounted for one to be able to access it at all? -- °°° David L. Steiner

Re: FIXED! [expert] access to CD-RW

2002-05-12 Thread Brian Schroeder
The HOWTO insists that any other OS partitions (ie. windows) must be handled by their own OS. Would dd successfully copy an unmounted windows partition to a new hd? Brian. >From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Much thanks to nDiScReEt, Bascule, Steve Browne, Brian Parish, Larry Sword, >and Pross

Re: FIXED! [expert] access to CD-RW

2002-05-12 Thread Hoyt
On Sunday 12 May 2002 09:55 am, David wrote: > Much thanks to nDiScReEt, Bascule, Steve Browne, Brian Parish, Larry Sword, > and Pross(who got in at the last moment).   > > We got it fixed.   > > The problem was that I followed the howto at > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/index.

FIXED! [expert] access to CD-RW

2002-05-11 Thread David
Much thanks to nDiScReEt, Bascule, Steve Browne, Brian Parish, Larry Sword, and Pross(who got in at the last moment). We got it fixed. The problem was that I followed the howto at http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade/index.html to upgrade my HD. Following directions, I used

Re: [expert] access to CD-RW

2002-05-11 Thread pross
i used to have a 'disapearing CDROM' problem with redhat...i'd boot up and sometimes i couldnt mount the cdrom.i finally discovered that if i did a 'modprobe cdrom' at boot it'd come back... maybe the same problemmaybe On Sunday 12 May 2002 2:18 am, you wrote: > On Saturday 11

Re: [expert] access to CD-RW

2002-05-11 Thread nDiScReEt
On Saturday 11 May 2002 06:08 pm, you wrote: > have you tried mounting by hand to see if you can, what does work? > comment out or delete the line in fstab that you have there for the time > being, make sure /mnt/cdrom exists and check its permissions, even root > can't read or write a file it doe

Re: [expert] access to CD-RW

2002-05-11 Thread bascule
have you tried mounting by hand to see if you can, what does work? comment out or delete the line in fstab that you have there for the time being, make sure /mnt/cdrom exists and check its permissions, even root can't read or write a file it doesn't have permissions for if they are not set - th

Re: [expert] access to CD-RW

2002-05-11 Thread Steve Browne
On Sun, 12 May 2002 06:42:23 -0400, you wrote: > > >nDiScReEt said onto me: >-- > > |> /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdd,fs=auto,--,user 0 0 > | > |If this is a cd-rw, you have to point it to /dev/scd0 not /dev/hdd. >

Re: [expert] access to CD-RW

2002-05-11 Thread David
nDiScReEt said onto me: -- |> /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdd,fs=auto,--,user 0 0 | |If this is a cd-rw, you have to point it to /dev/scd0 not /dev/hdd. | I also tried it as /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount

[expert] access to CD-RW

2002-05-11 Thread David
Last night I upgraded my HD. After doing so, everything worked fine except the fact that I can no longer access my CD-RW drive. My fstab is below. I have tried all combinations of options that I could think of, nothing has worked so far. The error I get is: You do not have enough permissio