Re: Ver. 7.2 block device definition errors

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On Wednesday 12 March 2003 10:53 pm, Keith Mastin wrote:

> The OP question was: When I attempt to "mount" either device I get an
> error "/dev/cdrom is not a valid block device".
>
> A possible answer to that is that is is possible that the device is
> already mounted, and you need to umount it before it can be mounted.

I hadn't thought of this earlier, but I believe the OP also stated that 
this was a new install of 7.2? 
If so, this was a well known "gotcha" for Enigma.

As root "depmod -ae" may solve the problem. Installing all available 
updates would be a good idea as well.

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