Am Montag 12 Januar 2004 05:06 schrieb Paul: > OK, I'm some what new to Linux but seem to have a problem on my second > system with Fedora. It was a clean install, but sharing disk space with > the dark side. > > Motherboard: Abit IC7-MAX3 > Kernel-smp#2.6.1-1.126 (but the core 1 2.4 didn't work either) > > My fstab has: > > LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 > LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 > none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 > none /proc proc defaults 0 0 > none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 > LABEL=/usr /usr ext3 defaults 1 2 > /dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0 > /dev/hdb /web vfat defaults 0 0 > /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 > > When I run Hardware Browser (hwbrowser) it reports: > > CD-ROM Drives Plextor CD-R PX-W1210A > Manufacturer: PLEXTOR > Driver: none or built-in > Device: /dev/hdc > > However when I manually try to mount ... > > [root@localhost root]# mount cdrom > mount: can't find cdrom in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab is wrong!! > > [root@localhost root]# mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom > mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device > > [root@localhost root]# mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom > mount: /dev/hdc is not a valid block device > > Any suggestions where to look and what to try? Oh and yes, the > /mnt/cdrom directory exists. > > Damn annoying since the system booted and loaded from the CD in the > first place. do you have a CD in the drive?? Have you enabled the ide-scsi emulator??? > > Paul
