Re: Debian cannot find the CD

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Barry Cugley wrote:

> Hello all
>  
> Debian cannot find the CD drive (though Windows 98 can) so I have used 
> the vi editor to change the file system table. Unfortunately, the CD 
> is still not being found by Debian.
>  
> I have changed the line in /etc/fstab
> /dev/cdrom    /cdrom     iso9660 defaults,noauto         0  0
> to:
> /dev/cdrom    /cdrom     iso9660 defaults,noauto,users        0  0
>  
>  
> After restarting the computer, putting a cd in its drive and double 
> clicking on the cd icon, I get the message:
> "mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist"
>  


/dev/cdrom is usually just a symlink to the actual device, in many cases 
/dev/hdc.

Try "mount /dev/hdc /cdrom" as a test; if that works, then you can make 
the symlink like this:
   ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom
so your /etc/fstab will pick up on it in the future. If it doesn't work, 
either try the other two likely possibilities (assuming normal IDE setup 
and assuming /dev/hda is your hard drive) of /dev/hdb and /dev/hdd.

Kent