Re: cdrom not valid block device?
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 08:08:39PM -0400, Peter Christensen wrote:
| Thanks for the help in setting up /etc/fstab. I think I've gotten a
| little farther along. I added a line to fstab as follows:
|
| /dev/cdrom /cd iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide
|
| Now when I type
|
| mount /cd
|
| I get the following message:
|
| mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device
|
| I wonder if my cdrom drive is not compatible? I think what I have is
| just a standard drive, IDE.
It should work. What is /dev/cdrom? ('ls -l /dev/cdrom') Where on
the ide buses is it? What kernel version are you running?
-D
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