On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 14:30, Mark A. Bell wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I have an old notebook with a basic Debian system installed and no > CD-ROM, a desktop computer, and a set of 'woody' CDs. I have NFS > running on both the desktop and the notebook, and I can mount the > desktop CD-ROM from the notebook with: > > mount debian:/cdrom /dev/cdrom > > I know it's mounted because I can 'ls' the desktop CDROM from the > notebook. > > However, when I run on the notebook: > > apt-cdrom add -d /dev/cdrom > > I get: > > Using CD-ROM mount point /dev/cdrom/ > Unmounting CD-ROM > Please insert a disc and press enter > Mounting CD-ROM > E: Failed to mount the cdrom >
Mark, Try adding the -m switch (no mounting): apt-cdrom add -m -d /dev/cdrom Brendan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
