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Re: mount: mount point /media/cdrom0 does not exist



On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 01:54:07PM -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote:
> Hi,
> I have multiple computers with debian installed. 
> 
> my /etc/fstab includes the lines
> 
> /dev/hdd        /media/cdrom0   iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0       0
> /dev/hdc        /media/cdrom1   iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0       0
> 
> the /media directory has 
> cdrom floppy and floppy0 files.
> 
> I have noticed that l can easily mount a cdrom on /dev/hdd (or /dev/hdc ) by 
> writing as superuser
> mount /dev/hdd /mnt 
> mount /dev/hhc /mnt. 
> 
> However what I would expect to work
> mount  /media/cdrom0 or
> mount /media/cdrom1 or
> mount /dev/hdd or
> mount /dev/hdc
> 
> dont work, with message 
> mount: mount point /media/cdrom0 does not exist

Well, do they exist?  From what you wrote above,

> the /media directory has 
> cdrom floppy and floppy0 files.

it seems perhaps that they don't.

> 
> Now I do have discover1 installed, as well as udev. This  machine is running 
> sid, but I have  noticed this malfeasance on many of my machines, some of 
> them  servers running sarge. 
> 
> I have generally 'solved' this by getting rid of udev and creating the right 
> devices in /dev/ directory.  Of course that it just circumventing the problem 
> not addresssing it. 
> 
> Ok, what should I be doing really???
> 
> Mitchell
> 
> 
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