OS may not have recognised my DVD....
Dear Debian foks,
I am not sure if the the OS saw my new DVD drive (Benq)correctly. I also
have a CD drive in my machine.
When I login in gnome I see an icon for the floppy drive cdrom1 as it calls
it and the file system.
Fedora for example made a separate icon for the DVD drive.
If you look in /media you actually see cdrom and cdrom0 not cdrom1.
spc2-burn3-0-0-cust329:/home/mikef# cd /media/
spc2-burn3-0-0-cust329:/media# ls
cdrom cdrom0 floppy floppy0
spc2-burn3-0-0-cust329:/media# ls -l
total 8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2006-10-17 14:09 cdrom -> cdrom0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-10-17 14:09 cdrom0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2006-10-17 14:09 floppy -> floppy0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2006-10-17 14:09 floppy0
I have been trying to get the OS to read in my new DVD in preference to the
old CDs (I am running Sarge 3.1 r3 and the DVD is for Sarge 3.1 r4):
spc2-burn3-0-0-cust329:/media# apt-cdrom -d/media/cdrom add
Using CD-ROM mount point /media/cdrom/
Unmounting CD-ROM
Please insert a Disc in the drive and press enter
Mounting CD-ROM
E: Failed to mount the cdrom.
spc2-burn3-0-0-cust329:/media# apt-cdrom -d/media/cdrom0 add
Using CD-ROM mount point /media/cdrom0/
Unmounting CD-ROM
Please insert a Disc in the drive and press enter
Mounting CD-ROM
E: Failed to mount the cdrom.
It doesn't work.
spc2-burn3-0-0-cust329:/media# apt-cdrom -d/media/cdrom add
Using CD-ROM mount point /media/cdrom/
Unmounting CD-ROM
Please insert a Disc in the drive and press enter
Mounting CD-ROM
E: Failed to mount the cdrom.
spc2-burn3-0-0-cust329:/media#
This also fails.
If you try cdrom1 you get
spc2-burn3-0-0-cust329:/home/mikef# apt-cdrom -d/media/cdrom1 add
Using CD-ROM mount point /media/cdrom1/
Unmounting CD-ROM
Please insert a Disc in the drive and press enter
Mounting CD-ROM
E: Unable to stat the mount point /media/cdrom1/ - stat (2 No such file or
directory)
E: Unable to stat the mount point /media/cdrom1/ - stat (2 No such file or
directory)
E: Failed to mount the cdrom.
I loaded the installer from the DVD for Sarge 3.1 r4 from boot up on my
machine perfectly and I used the installer to check the integrity of the two
DVDs I burned. They are fine.
So at some level Debian can see this DVD drive perfectly well starting from
scratch using the installer.
Comments appreciated.
Michael Fothergill
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