At 02:51 AM 5/15/98 -0400, Thomas F. Maher, Jr. wrote:
>| >Now, for some strange reason, Linux no longer can "see" my CD-Rom
>drive...
>| >even after a reformatting and re-installation, it still doesn't let me
>| >"mount" the CD-Rom and access the files... Hrm...
>|
>| Well.. What type of CD is it ? EIDE or SCSI ? When you
>| installed it, didn't it find the CD ?
>|
>| Also, are you trying to mount the drive as something other than
>| root ? I believe that it is installed such that you must be root
>| to mount the CD ROM.
>
>My CD-ROM is EIDE. Ran the Installation program for RedHat via DiskDruid.
>Since it read the installation data from the CD-ROM, I am guessing that it
>originally read the data all right... at first.
>
>Previously, In order to read the info on my CD-Rom drive, while in root, I
>just had to select my drive in X-Windows, click "Mount" and the information
>could then be read. /mnt/cdrom/ would actually show all the files listed
>under it...
>
>My Windoze Hard-drive is hda. Linux is now using hdb. And when I first boot
>up my computer, it claims to have mounted HDC, my CD-Rom drive, and lists
>its stats.
>
>But when I go into X-Windows, in fstools, and press the button marked
>"mount", the error message is that /etc/...something.../fstab or mstab
>doesn't have HDC listed as a device... and looking at the file (but not
>touching or saving anything) I noticed, nope! No entry for HDC.
>
>Sheesh! And I thought connecting to an ISP was hard! ;}
Try this command:
mount /mnt/cdrom
this should mount the CDROM for you. ok ?
Matt Soffen
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