[Sheflug] Re: CDROM mount troubles

[Richard Ibbotson <nospam [at] sheflug.co.uk>]

Dear All

Had some mail from .... Jan-Erik Bullett <jan-erik [at] cableinet.co.uk> 
..

to <support [at] sheflug.co.uk>.  Not quite sure how to answer it but I 
was hoping that someone might help him out ?


On Friday 18 May 2001 04:38, you wrote:
> Hello South Yorkshire brethren!
>
> I am having trouble mounting my cdrom under kde and mandrake 7.1
>
> It works. I know that, it installed my system and worked previously
> with mandrake and even now plays audio cd's ok. It's just that I
> can't read it.
>
> My ftsab currently looks like;
>
> /dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
> none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
> /dev/hda6 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660 defaults 0 0
> /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0
> none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
>
> and my mtab looks a bit like;
>
> /dev/hda1 / ext2 rw 0 0
> none /proc proc rw 0 0
> none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0
> /dev/hda6 /home ext2 rw 0 0
> /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount rw,fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0
> automount(pid448) /misc autofs
> rw,fd=5,pgrp=448,minproto=2,maxproto=3 0 0
>
> the last line worries me most, but I'm ignoring it for now.
>
> when I type mount /dev/cdrom it returns...
> ...mount: can't find /dev/hdb in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
>
> I kind of understand this, and know that my cdrom is on hdb.
>
> What should the line inthe fstab and mtab files look like?
>
> Any help greatly appreciated.
>
> Jetilla



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Richard
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