Re: problems in mounting cdrom
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 02:26:14PM +0200, Patrizia Canton wrote:
> Hi,
> I am new to Debian and to Linux,
> after installing it, I mounted many times the cdrom
> with no problems. Today I tried to install apt
> and, when I was requested to select the install source for apt,
> I was not able to continue
> either giving /dev/cdrom or giving /cdrom.
> After that when I tried to mount
> mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom
> (which is the entry I have in /etc/fstab and
> that it worked till this morning)
> the prompt is always
> mount: /dev/cdrom is not a block device.
> What should I do?
Try "ls -l /dev/cdrom" to inspect for further problems:
23:00 $ ls -l /dev/cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jul 18 2000 /dev/cdrom -> scd0
23:42 $ ls -l /dev/scd0
brw-rw---- 2 root cdrom 11, 0 Jul 16 2000 /dev/scd0
/dev/cdrom is usually a symbolic link to your real cdrom device. If
your CD-ROM is the master drive on the second IDE cable, it might be
accessible as /dev/hdc. So, I can do either
mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /cdrom
or
mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /cdrom
and get the same result. To re-create the link, read "info ln".
Rob
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