Fedora Users — Re: Problem with my external CD-Rom

Message: 14 Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 12:58:06 -0400 (EDT) From: "ne..." <akabi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: Problem with my external CD-Rom To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.53.0410051256330.7386@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=UTF-8 On Oct 5, 2004 at 17:04, Alexander Dalloz in a soothing rage wrote:

Am Di, den 05.10.2004 schrieb Dellacherie Stephane um 15:24:
If my external usb cd-rom is connected when I boot my laptop, there is no problem to mount and do umount my cd-rom.

But, if I boot my laptop and if, *after*, I connect my usb external cd-rom, it is impossible to mount the cd-rom.

What happends ? Is there something to change in the files /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab ?
Don't touch the /etc/mtab!
Stéph
Add to your /etc/fstab a line
/dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              udf,iso9660
noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
I think he should not add 'kudzu' as the next time he reboots
without the cdrom attached the line will be removed from fstab.
... or I might be mistaken.

N.Emile...


You are right Emile : I sould not add 'kudzu'.

Nevertheless, the command line

/dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0

does not work. Indeed, the file /dev/cdrom does not exists.

Remember that my usb cd-rom is an external cdrom and not an internal cdrom ... .

Moreover, when I put this line in /etc/fstab, I cannot mount the usb external cd-rom even when it is connected before the boot.

Fortunately, by removing the previous line "/dev/cdrom ..." from the /etc/fstab file, everything is ok.

So, up to now, I cannot solve my problem discribed at the beginning of this message.

Thank you to help me !

Stéph