Re: If you show me yours, I'll show you mine....

[Alan DeJong <annette@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Robert G. Brown wrote:

> Well, sort of.
>
> >>>>ls -lart /dev/hcd /dev/cdrom
> >>>>???
> >>>this is what i got:
> >>>brw-rw----   1 root     disk      22,   0 May  5  1998 /dev/hdc
> >>>lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root            3 Jan 19 14:02 /dev/cdrom ->hdc
> >>>help any?
> Yeah, we have the same settings for permissions, etc.:
> ls -lart /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom
> brw-rw----   1 root     disk      22,   0 Feb  4  1995 /dev/hdc
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root            3 Jun 30  1998 /dev/cdrom -> hdc
>
> >>Yes, now show us your /etc/fstab
> >
> >/dev/hda6          /                 ext2       defaults         1 1
> >/dev/hda3          /usr              ext2       defaults         1 2
> >/dev/hda4          swap              swap       defaults         0 0
> >/dev/fd0           /mnt/floppy       ext2       noauto           0 0
> >/dev/cdrom         /mnt/cdrom        iso9660    noauto,ro        0 0
> >none               /proc             proc       defaults         0 0
> The line in mine is:
> /dev/hdc           /mnt/cdrom         iso9660    noauto,ro        0 0
> Somewhat different. My /dev/cdrom is not used by anything. The mount
> command I use is (exactly):
> mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom -o ro -t iso9660
>

well, when u told me to use that one, i did, and it did the same thing it has
always done..  should/can i edit fstab to show:
/dev/hdc           /mnt/cdrom         iso9660    noauto,ro        0 0
??
would that mess up anything?

> >
> >i saw that my cdrom for some reason was /dev/cdrom, so then i did:
> >
> >[root@localhost /etc]# mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
> >mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only
> >mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom,
> >       or too many mounted file systems
> >same thing again!
> Hmmm.... Almost makes ya think these things are order dependent....
>
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