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Re: Removing the CD



On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 05:11:27PM +0100, Paul Tansom wrote:
> OK, this may be simple and I'm missing something basic - I hope so! - but how
> do you get the CDROM mounted when you insert it after you have booted without
> it?  I have a Dell Latitude C600 and the BIOS recognises makes the CDROM
> available automatically, but I cannot mount it because hdc (where it usually
> sits) is not a valid block device.  If I boot then remove and replace it all
> works fine.  It's basic, I'm confinced I'm missing something basic!!!!

could we take a look at:
/etc/fstab
and
possibly relevant output from dmesg?
that might help debug the issue.

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