On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 08:48 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote: > On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 00:52 +0100, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > > I can see from the archive that FC3 has severe problems with DVDs. I > > have, however, not seen any message desribing my problem with DVDs. > > > > Whenever I insert a DVD FC3 mounts it as a CD-ROM and consequently it is > > displayed as empty. The DVD in question is the downloaded FC3 > > installation DVD. And it is correctly burnt because I have installed FC3 > > from it. I discovered the problem with I wanted to update my FC3 system > > with an additional function and after it requested the DVD (actually CD > > no. 2) it wasn't able to read the DVD. Later I just inserted the DVD to > > see how it would be mounted and that's where I saw it mounted as a CD- > > ROM. > > > > I don't think I missed anything in the installation of FC3 I just wonder > > if there is anything I can do to make my FC3 system detect the DVD when > > one is inserted. Perhaps I should report it to Bugzilla? > > Mounting it as a CD-ROM is the right thing to do. A data DVD like the > FC3 installation DVD is basically just a "big" CD. > > However, if the mounted filesystem displays as empty rather than showing > the contents of the DVD, then that is a problem. It works fine here, > displaying correctly both for "ls" on the terminal and using nautilus. "ls" and nautilus displays nothing but total 0 and MC displays an empty folder. The DVD is mounted on /media/cdrecorder and the fstab entry is: /dev/hdd /media/cdrecorder auto pamconsole,fscontext=system_u:object_r:removable_t,ro,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 Is anything wrong with that? BTW, I am running kernel 2.6.9-1.681_FC3 I'll go back to the previous version and see if that makes any difference. -- Regards, Erik P. Olsen
