Hi, after upgrading to kernel 2.6.5-1-686 I find some familiar things
are not mounted. I mounted the WinXP drive and the dvd but

Tux:/mnt# mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrw /mnt/cdrw
mount: special device /dev/cdrw does not exist
... but I know it does. Does mount point /cdrw exist ?

My current /etc/mtab:
/dev/hdb5 / ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
/dev/hdb2 /boot ext3 rw 0 0
/dev/hdb9 /home ext3 rw 0 0
/dev/hdb6 /usr ext3 rw 0 0
/dev/hdb7 /usr/local ext3 rw 0 0
/dev/hdb8 /var ext3 rw 0 0
/dev/hde5 /home/cyberia ext2 rw 0 0
/dev/hde6 /usr/cyberia ext2 rw 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/WinXP vfat rw 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy msdos rw 0 0
/dev/hdc /dev/dvd iso9660 ro 0 0
~
My /etc/fstab:
 /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>                       <dump>  <pass>
/dev/hda1       /mnt/WinXP      vfat    rw,user,noexec,auto     0       0
/dev/hdb5       /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro      0       1
/dev/hdb10      none            swap    sw                      0       0
proc            /proc           proc    defaults                        0       0
/dev/fd         /floppy         auto    defaults,user,noauto            0       0
/dev/cdrw       /cdrw           iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto         0       0
/dev/dvd        /dvd            iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto         0       0
/dev/hdb2       /boot   ext3    defaults                        0       2
/dev/hdb9       /home   ext3    defaults                        0       2
/dev/hdb6       /usr    ext3    defaults                        0       2
/dev/hdb7       /usr/local      ext3    defaults                        0       2
/dev/hdb8       /var    ext3    defaults                        0       2
/dev/hde5       /home/cyberia   ext2    defaults                        0       2
/dev/hde6       /usr/cyberia    ext2    defaults                        0       2
~
~
and
Tux:~# df
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdb5              1369008    251608   1046714  20% /
tmpfs                   193232         0    193232   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hdb2                46642     12108     32126  28% /boot
/dev/hdb9             18951504   3779932  14208880  22% /home
/dev/hdb6             12342396   2236364   9479100  20% /usr
/dev/hdb7              1872960    435864   1341916  25% /usr/local
/dev/hdb8              1824768    357852   1374144  21% /var
/dev/hde5              7692876         8   7302092   1% /home/cyberia
/dev/hde6              1344016         8   1275736   1% /usr/cyberia
/dev/hda1             19991104  11077008   8914096  56% /mnt/WinXP
/dev/fd0                  1424      1228       196  87% /mnt/floppy
/dev/hdc               7678628   7678628         0 100% /dev/dvd
Logically creating a new device does not work:
Tux:~# mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrw
mount: block device /dev/hdd is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: No medium found
and
Tux:~# mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdf /mnt/cdrw
mount: /dev/hdf is not a valid block device
Further,
Tux:/mnt# ls
WinXP  cdrw  dvd  floppy
I wish to burn a few CD's ... 

What am I missing here ?

Adam Bogacki,
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