General Support - Cannot mount CD-ROMs rhirwin - 06.07.2006, 21:30 Uhr Titel: Cannot mount CD-ROMs
I need help with a problem. This is my "learning" system - an Athlon 64 on an ABIT NV-8 mb, 1gb main memory, two HDDs in removable drawers, and a DVD/CD reader/writer and a CD reader/writer. This is Kanotix64 2005-04-lite, which installed without problems on my hdd. However, when I attempt to read a CD, the CD is recognized and an icon appears on the desk top, but attempting to mount it gives an error code:
mount: can't find /dev/hdc in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
Please check that the disk is entered correctly.
Apparently my optical drives are not being recognized correctly. How do I fix this? Can I make some changes to fstab, and if so how?
Your help would be appreciated.
A newbie low on the learning curve.
devil - 06.07.2006, 21:36 Uhr Titel: Cannot mount CD-ROMs
RHI,
mount is looking for hdc, fstab has cdrom. that wont work.
if you change /dev/cdrom to /dev/hdc in fstab, things will work.
greetz
devil
rhirwin - 06.07.2006, 22:36 Uhr Titel: RE: Cannot mount CD-ROMs
devil,
Thanks. I did as you suggested and things seem to work now. This suggests another question - Why did Kanotix64 2005-04 not set up this table correctly?
RHI
devil - 06.07.2006, 23:07 Uhr Titel: RE: Cannot mount CD-ROMs
good question, it seems to be an udev issue and i had it before.
after the new naming sheme it should be as it was in fstab: /dev/cdrom. so kanotix did it according to the rules, but udev decided to use /dev/hdc.
greetz
devil
rhirwin - 07.07.2006, 23:03 Uhr Titel: RE: Cannot mount CD-ROMs
devil,
Another follow-on question. My first optical drive, CDROM0, is a DVD/CD reader/writer. Should this be described differently in fstab?
Bob
devil - 07.07.2006, 23:10 Uhr Titel: RE: Cannot mount CD-ROMs
that should be /dev/hdd then. in /media you could create a dir named dvd for it if you want to with mkdir /media/dvd or whatever suits you as name. that has to go into fstab as: /dev/hdd /media/dvd then