Re: cannot mount /dev/cdrom
try
mount /dev/sr0 /cdrom
sometimes the link in /dev is fubar
if the above works then change your /etc/fstab
have a look thru dmesg to see where the cd is being detected.
david
On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 03:51, Adrian Crisan wrote:
> hi all,
> i have a beige g3/266. before i had a 2 gig scsi + 4 gig ide on this
> machine. i managed to install debian (30r1) as only os on this
> machine. few days ago i got a 18 gig scsi ibm and i tried to get rid
> of the old 2 gig scsi and 4 gig ide and have just this 18 gig scsi ibm
> hard on this machine. went through all phases of instal and when i
> tryied to copy 'quik' (first.b) from a cd i can do 'umount
> /dev/cdrom' and take out the debian ppc cd1 that was on the cdrom ,
> but when i insert the cd with patched and try to mount ' mount
> /dev/cdrom ' it tells me that '/dev/cdrom cannot be found in fstab' i
> open with nano-tiny fstab and cdrom is there listed . any ideas? (
> first time i installed with the old 2gig scsi hard i had the same
> problem with the floppy and i tried with the cd, then worked).
> many thanks, _adrian_
>
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