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tabrown
04-06-2005, 06:14 PM
I ran the Knoppix Live CD just fine, and it worked good with the "tohd" and "fromhd" cheat codes. I like it so well, that I did a full install to the hard drive using the install option from the menu when Knoppix was loaded from the CD. However, after the HDD installation was complete, my internal CD-ROM and my external USB CD-ROM drives stopped being detected. Any ideas? My other USB devices seem to be working.

fingers99
04-06-2005, 06:38 PM
Odd that an internal CD Rom should cease work. How do you know it has?

tabrown
04-06-2005, 06:41 PM
for example, if I put the Knoppix CD in the internal drive, then go to /mnt/auto/cdrom to view its contents, I can't see anything.

fingers99
04-06-2005, 06:45 PM
What happens if you just click on the icon?

What is the /etc/fstab

(do

gvim /etc/fstab and copy and paste the line over)

entry for the CDrom?

tabrown
04-06-2005, 06:48 PM
That was the other weird thing. After the full install, I no longer had desktop icons for cd-rom drives or the hdd. I'll have to look at the /fstab. Don't know what it says yet.

tabrown
04-11-2005, 12:46 PM
Thanks for the help, but I think my problem was my ignorance.