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

["Robert G. Brown" <bob@xxxxxxx>]

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
>
>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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