RE: Ver. 7.2 block device definition errors

Steve,

You got me wrong. No forum is to ask dumb questions, this is etiquette, not
me saying so.

Take into account that usually this is professional IT people that don't
have time to answer dumb questions.
About your problem try to "mount -t iso9660 -r /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom", you
have to have the /mnt/cdrom directory. And read
www.tldp.org/HOWTO/CDROM-HOWTO.html .
A great writing to read is www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html where
Eric Raymond's "How To Ask Questions The Smart Way" is, a wonderful writing
that helped me a lot.
I would make sure that the cdrom is connected on the second IDE port, as
master ( this is hdc).
Please don't get offended by my words.
Best regards
Luis Santos


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Steve R. [SMTP:[email protected]]
> Sent:	Thursday, March 13, 2003 2:32 AM
> To:	[email protected]
> Subject:	RE: Ver. 7.2 block device definition errors
> 
> Luis, 
>     I appreciate you taking the time to respond to
> this question. If I sound dumb, I suppose I am about
> Linux. I am very new to it. However my real problem is
> that I cannot mount either the floppy or the cdrom.
> When I issue the command "mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom"
> I get the error "not a valid block device". The
> question about what the "l" means is a result of a
> CONSIDERABLE amount of study in the books that say
> these devices in the "/dev" directory are supposed to
> be prefixed with a "b" not an "l"! That is why I am
> getting the error and is what I need to figure out.
> and PARDON me for being a newbie! I guess I have
> learned my lesson not to ask questions of a support
> forum! If this forum is not for asking questions that
> some would find stupid then it is not much of a
> support forum after all! 
> 
> 
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