Re: Cdrom in Debian testing/unstable
On Monday 27 September 2004 14:48, H. S. wrote:
> Apparently, _edgar_, on 09/27/04 07:53,typed:
> > Hello,
> > I've installed on a laptop and on few desktops Debian with a Sarge
> > netinstall cd and then upgraded to unstable.
> > I guess I missed something lately but how do I mount the cdrom? When I
> > put an audio cd in the laptop it is recognized in the cd player, but
> > when I want to mount a cd with programs I cannot mount the cdrom. It
> > says it's not in fstab, but it is. There's no cdrom0 in /media. After
> > some workaround I did it, but I don't think it was meant to be used that
> > way. So how does it work?
>
> The cdrom has always been one of those non-obvious things to me
> immediately after installation. Just after you are done with
> installation there are no entried in /etc/fstab for the CD-ROM. You have
> to actually make the entry that mounts /dev/cdrom or /dev/hdc or
> /dev/scd0 or whatever device you have as a CD-ROM. IIRC, a few months
> ago someone justified this for the sake of security. I have forgotten
> what was the reason.
>
> In any case, you are right, you have to yourself make the mount points.
> Moreover, the cdrom mount points are not even in /media. They are in
> /cdrom, /cdrom/cdrom0 and /cdrom/cdrom1 or something like this. What I
> have done is left the CD-ROM in /cdrom and linked that mount point to
> /dev/hdc and made new directory /media/cdrw and linked that to the my
> writer /dev/hdd and put the corresponding mount points in /etc/fstab and
> all works well.
The mount points are wherever you want them to be, and the current
FSB I think says /media is the right place. But if you want them under
your home directory you can do that to. Certainly with the new installer
the defaults are in /media, and in my case it worked out of the box.
David
>
> BTW, which Laptop did you install Debian on?
>
> ->HS
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