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Re: [LUG] mounting




On Mon, 24 April 2000, Paul Sutton wrote:

> mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
> hdc: driver not present
> hdc: driver not present
> mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device.  

Sounds like there's something kernel level missing.

I don't know how your kernel is configured but try doing
modprobe cdrom
and
modprobe isofs
to load the cd device and iso filesystem modules, and try mounting
while specifying the fs type in the mount command:
mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

> I have check both mtab and fstab and there is no mention of my cd
> device which as far as I am aware what I would expect as it is not
> mounted.  How can I get my cdrw working,

Afair, the mtab is a list of currently mounted devices, whereas the fstab
is a list of prototypes for mounting certain mount points so you specify
them to mount at boot up, specify the fs type and the /dev device.

For a cdrom I would expect an entry like this in fstab:
/dev/cdrom	/mnt/cdrom	iso9660 	noauto	0 0


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