Hi David I'm not a big expert on these things. Here are a few ideas. I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong.
First of all. I must say that I'm not sure what your problem is. You don't usually need an entry in fstab to mount DVDs. On my PC a pre-recorded CD or DVD just gets mounted automatically and an entry for /dev/sr0 appears in /etc/mtab (the mounted file systems). For a blank disk, I get a prompt to ask me what to do with it - e.g. to launch CC/DVD Creator. Most removable media will mount automatically and appear in the Launcher. Your floppy drive entry seems to be rubbish. I would just remove it, if you don't have a floppy drive. I'm using standard Ubuntu 15.04. What are you using? And how did you install it? Are you dual booting with Vista, for instance? Tony On 20 September 2015 at 13:04, David Goldsbrough <da...@boavon.plus.com> wrote: > About 2 months ago I installed Ubuntu 14.04 on a win vista machine that > was lying a little idle. One reason for this was the large screen attached > to it and my failing eyesight at the time. I now know that was a little > futile of a reason. > My eyesight deteriorated significantly afterwards to the point of having > an op to reattach my retina and I am now on the long recovery path. I have > been experimenting with all sorts of accessibility aids with little success > and lots of frustration. > I explored Ubuntu like distros aimed at those with poor eyesight. It was > then I discovered my previous installation had not recognised my twin DVD > drives as I was unable to burn the ISO image after download. Early > research suggested an edit to /etc/fstab might cure the problem so i added > two lines. See this:- > > Myfstab > # etc/fstab: static file system information. > # > # Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a > # device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices > # that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5). > # > # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> > # / was on /dev/sda5 during installation > UUID=76577e65-1d5c-4447-8e5a-df0b3df73d0c / ext4 > errors=remount-ro 0 1 > # swap was on /dev/sda6 during installation > UUID=76bf638d-db15-4c38-a1ec-659b5b5fd5dd none swap > sw 0 0 > /dev/frw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0 > /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0 > /dev/sr1 /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0 > > Now the floppy drive entry is really weird as the system does not have > one! The hard drive is a SATA drive. > If I insert USB stick the system picks it up and I can see files. The DVD > drives work OK in Win Vista . Indeed I can boot from them before GRUB and > the MBR kicks in. > Any help to fix would be most appreciated. > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > >
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