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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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