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CDROM mounting problem! (please help!)
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| carl aliceinchains_@hotmail.com 2005-02-14, 2:45 am |
| Hi there!
Linux newbie here 
I just installed Red Hat Fedora Core 3
however i am trying to mount the CDROM drive
but it does not work
i get the message
mount can't find /mnt/cdrom in /etc/fstab or etc/mtab
i looked in my /dev/ folder to find no 'file' named CDROM
can anyone help? thanks a lot!
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| carl aliceinchains_@hotmail.com waffled to linux.redhat.misc :
> Hi there!
> Linux newbie here
>
> I just installed Red Hat Fedora Core 3
> however i am trying to mount the CDROM drive
> but it does not work
>
> i get the message
>
> mount can't find /mnt/cdrom in /etc/fstab or etc/mtab
>
> i looked in my /dev/ folder to find no 'file' named CDROM
>
> can anyone help? thanks a lot!
How are you trying to mount it, from a gui or command line ?
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| carl aliceinchains_@hotmail.com 2005-02-14, 2:45 am |
| Well initially I'm going through the GUI, KDE
just clicking on the 'cdrom' icon
just to see what's going on....to see what kind of error message it gives
me.
then i run Xterm through 'run' just to browse around..when i noticed in the
/dev/ folder
my cdrom 'file' isn't even there...
i typed floppy while in the /dev folder and it gave me a list of options,
i'm guessing that when linux installs i should have a similar 'file' called
cdrom but... nothing's there!
i'm just guessing that the /hdc refers to the secondary IDE port connection
on my motherboard..
maybe i should re-install? what do you think? i find this rather odd i just
installed it
it should work!
thanks again!
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| <=> I just installed Red Hat Fedora Core 3
<=> however i am trying to mount the CDROM drive
<=> but it does not work
<=>
<=> i get the message
<=>
<=> mount can't find /mnt/cdrom in /etc/fstab or etc/mtab
<=>
<=> i looked in my /dev/ folder to find no 'file' named CDROM
Didn't FC3 move the removable media to the new /media folder? So, if you
pop in a CD, and type in mount /media/cdrom, it should mount your CD. In my
fstab file, the cdrom's entry looks like this:
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom auto
pamconsole,exec,noauto,fscontext=system_
u:object_r:removable_t,managed 0 0
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| carl aliceinchains_@hotmail.com waffled to linux.redhat.misc :
> Well initially I'm going through the GUI, KDE
> just clicking on the 'cdrom' icon
>
> just to see what's going on....to see what kind of error message it gives
> me.
>
> then i run Xterm through 'run' just to browse around..when i noticed in
> the /dev/ folder
>
> my cdrom 'file' isn't even there...
> i typed floppy while in the /dev folder and it gave me a list of options,
> i'm guessing that when linux installs i should have a similar 'file'
> called cdrom but... nothing's there!
>
> i'm just guessing that the /hdc refers to the secondary IDE port
> connection on my motherboard..
>
> maybe i should re-install? what do you think? i find this rather odd i
> just installed it
> it should work!
>
> thanks again!
Yes it should, haven't tried fc3 yet, maybe that's a reason not to
Fc2 runs like a dog on this old dear so have decided to stick with fc1.
However what I do and it may help you should you decide to reinstall.
I don't install automount. I mostly use the cdrom drive from the command
line. Fc1 uses /mnt/cdrom as the directory it mounts to.
Have a look at your /etc/fstab file it may give you a clue as to where the
cdrom is mounted. eg in my case /mnt/cdrom.
I go to the mount directory and type mount cdrom dor instance. I realise
from an earlier post that FC3 probably won't work this way, but have a look
at the fstab file and see if it shows it's new mount point and try
something similar.
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| Andrew Kar 2005-02-16, 5:45 pm |
| carl aliceinchains_@hotmail.com wrote:
> i find this rather odd i just
> installed it
> it should work!Â_Â_
Yes well thats RH-Fedora crowd for you, they have a vested intrest in
supplying broken kde distributions and they have so far on all FC releases.
Of course Gnome works just fine...
Anyhow get rid of your icons and right-click on the desktop and add new
device CDroms. Choose appropriately
hda = hard disk
hdb = slave of ide chanel1
hdc = master of ide2
hdd = slave of ide2
If you only have one CD it is usually /dev/hdc
You can then click on these icons to mount/open or eject
andrew
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| robertcr5 2005-03-08, 10:29 pm |
| Thanks for posting that line from your /etc/fstab. I was having the same problem as the original poster. Since my laptop has a cd burner the HAL daemon or kudzu (I suppose) had detected that device and produced a line for /medie/cdrecorder that was cinsiderably different . After plugging in your line; it works just fine now.
THANKS! |
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