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Dale Woodside <dalew@zeus.mpce.mq.edu.au> wrote:

>BS wrote:
>> 
>> Since installing I have only been able to mount the CD one time.
><snip>
>> 
>> 1) mount: can't find cdrom in /etc/mtab or /etc/fstab
>> My little bit of (dangerous) knowledge shows me that it is
>> in fstab, where
>> it should be, and not in mtab, where I believe it shouldn't be.

/etc/mtab shows what's currently mounted - mtab... 

at the prompt:

$ man mount

then:

/ mtab

>> 
>> 2) mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/cdrom as a block device
>>             (maybe 'insmod driver'?)
>> 
>> Now what gets me is that I can't boot from the cdrom anymore.
>> I have tried 10x, 16x, 24x and 36x drives that are all atapi
>> compliant.
>
>Note: atapi cdrom is an IDE drive.  Treat it kinda like an
>enhanced IDE hard drive and mount it like:
>
>mount -tiso9660 -oro /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom
>
>Insert hdb or other depending on how many ext2 partitions you
>have.  The cdrom will be the one after your last one.  Using
>/dev/cdrom didn't work for me either, with the same error
>messages.  Then I thought of the above after exhausting all
>the /dev's that looked like cdrom drivers.  :-)

Yes, I found that on RH4.2 and 5.1, soft linking (ln -s ...) /dev/cdrom to
the appropriate /dev/hd? device would cause mount to complain about the
/dev/hd? not being in /etc/fstab, whereas hard linking it (ln ...) didn't.

BTW, are you sure the CD is still good (scratchs, grease, etc) ?
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