Re: CD-ROM Not Working

Yes, exactly the same, except for the date & time of course.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven J. Yellin" <[email protected]>
To: "Discussion of Red Hat Linux 9 (Shrike)" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 10:35 PM
Subject: Re: CD-ROM Not Working


>    It sounds like it's complaining that /mnt/cdrom is not a directory.
> It should be.  Does "ls -ld /mnt/cdrom" show something like
>
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Nov 20 11:45 /mnt/cdrom
>
> where the "d" at the beginning means it's a directory.
>
>
> Steven Yellin
>
> On Sun, 17 Dec 2006, JohnH wrote:
>
>> It informed me that
>>
>> mount: Not a directory
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Steven J. Yellin" <[email protected]>
>> To: "Discussion of Red Hat Linux 9 (Shrike)" <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 10:15 PM
>> Subject: Re: CD-ROM Not Working
>>
>>
>> >    You didn't give a mount command.  You're probably used to
>> > having the computer do it automatically when you load the CDROM.
>> > Apparently you are not setup so that you have to do it yourself
>> > with
>> >
>> > mount /mnt/cdrom
>> >
>> > If that works, "df" should show that the cd is mounted, and
>> > its contents should be visible after you then do
>> >
>> > cd /mnt/cdrom
>> >
>> > Steven Yellin
>> >
>> > On Sun, 17 Dec 2006, JohnH wrote:
>> >
>> >> Check all as follows:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> ----- Original Message -----
>> >> From: "Steven J. Yellin" <[email protected]>
>> >> To: "Discussion of Red Hat Linux 9 (Shrike)" <[email protected]>
>> >> Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 9:38 PM
>> >> Subject: Re: CD-ROM Not Working
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> >    Please give more information.  What instruction, if any, did you
>> >> > give
>> >> > to mount it?
>> >>
>> >> cd /mnt/cdrom
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> >    Did the mount succeed without complaint?
>> >>
>> >> Yes
>> >>
>> >> >  Where did you then look for data?
>> >>
>> >> ls and dir
>> >>
>> >> >    Does fstab have a line in it refering to a cdrom, such as
>> >> > /dev/cdrom
>> >> > /mnt/cdrom    udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
>> >>
>> >> Yes,          /dev/cdrom   /mnt/cdrom    udf,iso9660
>> >> noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0
>> >> 0
>> >>
>> >> >
>> >> > If so, to what does your /dev/cdrom symbolically link?  For example,
>> >> > ls -l /dev/cdrom might show a line including "/dev/cdrom -> 
>> >> > /dev/hdd",
>> >>
>> >> lrwxrwxrwx     1root     root     8 Dec 16 15:04     /dev/cdrom -> 
>> >> /dev
>> >> /hdc
>> >>
>> >> > in which case you might be able to see that it really is a CD by
>> >> > "cat /proc/ide/hdd/media" showing "cdrom".
>> >>
>> >> cat /proc/ide/hdc/media
>> >>
>> >> cdrom
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> I am not going to concern myself with the floppy just yet. I figure I 
>> >> can
>> >> fix that with the same DISTRUCTIONS as for the CD.
>> >>
>> >> >
>> >> > Steven Yellin
>> >> >
>> >> > On Sun, 17 Dec 2006, JohnH wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> I had to reinstall RH9 because of my own stupidity (don't ask).
>> >> >> Now I can't see anything on my CD's.
>> >> >> I can put in an audio CD and it will play but I can't see data on 
>> >> >> the
>> >> >> RH9
>> >> >> install CD's.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> What am I doing wrong?
>> >> >>
>> >> >> JohnH
>> >> >> [email protected]
>> >>
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