Re: Now Can't Mount the CDROM

[MSaxena358@aol.com]

Hi Bruce,

    I?m grateful for your help.  It seems as though the problem 
is there is no /cdrom directory or files!  Do you know how I can 
fix this?  Perhaps load a disk image onto a floppy, or...?
    Thanks!  

- Manu

Here's the latest script:

Agape:~# mount /dev/sonycd /cdrom
mount: /dev/sonycd is not a block device

Agape:~# ls -l /dev/sonycd /dev/cdrom
ls: /dev/cdrom: No such file or directory
total 0
brw-rw----   1 root     disk      15,   0 May  5 20:37 sonycd-

Agape:~# ls -l /dev/cdrom
ls: /dev/cdrom: No such file or directory

Agape:~# /dev/MAKEDEV /cdrom
/dev/MAKEDEV: don't know how to make device "/cdrom"

Agape:~# /dev/MAKEDEV cdrom
/dev/MAKEDEV: don't know how to make device "cdrom"

Agape:~# cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options>      
<dump> <pass>
/dev/hda2       /             ext2   defaults,errors=remount-ro 0      
1
/dev/hda3       none          swap   sw                         0      
0
proc            /proc         proc   defaults                   0      
0
/dev/cdrom  /cdrom        iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto
    0      0

Agape:~# ln -s /dev/sonycd /dev/cdrom

Agape:~# mount /dev/sonycd /cdrom
mount: /dev/sonycd is not a block device
Agape:~# exit
exit

Script done on Fri May  5 21:21:37 2000

In a message dated 5/5/00 9:07:46 PM EST, bsass@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca writes:

<< 
 > Hello!
 > 
 >     Bruce, thanks for the tip about ?script?.  For whatever reason, ?man? 
 > didn?t work, but I got the script working anyway.  Here are the relevant 
 > excerpts:
 > 
 > Agape:~# ls -l /dev/{sonycd,cdrom}
 > ls: /dev/{sonycd,: No such file or directory
 > ls: cdrom}: No such file or directory
 
 Ack!  Try: "ls -l /dev/sonycd /dev/cdrom"
 
 a{b,c} == ab ac, or at least it is if bash is the shell
 
 <...>
 > Agape:/etc# ae fstab
 > File "fstab" 345 bytes read.
 > 7m....5...10....5...20....5...30....5...40....5...50....5...60....
 > 5...70....5...80 /etc/fstab: static file system information.
 > #
 > # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
 > /dev/hda2       /        ext2   defaults,errors=remount-ro 
 > /dev/hda3       none         swap
 > proc            /proc        proc   defaults
 
 Hmmm, where are the dump and pass flags; there should be "0 1" at the
 end of the "/dev/hda2" line, and "0 0" at the end of the others.  Also,
 try "cat /etc/fstab", instead of "ae fstab".
 
 You could add:
 /dev/cdrom  /cdrom  iso9660  defaults,ro,user,noauto  0 0
 
 > Agape:/etc# lsmod
 > Module                  Size  Used by
 > cdu31a                 21448   0  (unused)
 > serial                 18412   0 
 > parport_pc              5492   1  (autoclean)
 > lp                      5184   0  (unused)
 > parport                 6600   1  [parport_pc lp]
 > vfat                    8972   0  (unused)
 > smbfs                  24104   0  (unused)
 > binfmt_aout             3668   0 
 
 This looks ok.  I think your problem is that there is no node in
 /dev for the sonycd ("cd /dev;./MAKEDEV sonycd" should fix it, but I
 can't say for sure without seeing the output of the ls command given
 earlier).
 
 This is what it looks like on my system:
 # ls -l /dev/sonycd /dev/cdrom
 lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  root     11 Mar  7 21:53 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/sonycd
 brw-rw----  1 root  root  15, 0 Feb 12 00:20 /dev/sonycd
 
 later,
 
    Bruce
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