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huge problems mounting a cdrom and a cd rw.
i was told that this might be a bug in the distro...
I am using Overclockix hd installed which is a knoppix remastered.
this is how my fstab looked like before any changes. NOTE that i do not have a dvd and overclockix auto-named the devices as dvd and cdaudio1
/etc/fstab: filesystem table.
#
# filesystem mountpoint type options dump pass
/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /floppy vfat defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=022 0 0
/dev/dvd /dvd iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
/dev/cdaudio /cdaudio iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hdb5 /mnt/hdb5 ntfs noauto,users,exec,ro,umask=000 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=000 0 0
and this is my mtab
/dev/hda1 / ext3 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0
none /proc proc rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw 0 0
/dev/cdaudio /cdaudio iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
i click on the cdrom icon and i get an error saying : error kdektop
unable to run the specified command. THe file or folder file:/mnt/cdrom does not exist
same thing for the cd wr
as root i try to create a folder names cdrom in the mnt directory and it does not let me .
From a console i do this: mount /mnt/cdrom and it does not let me . I can see the cdrom and cdaudio folder in the root partition though
I corrected the fstab because i did not mount them in /dev but instead i said /mnt/cdrom
/dev/cdaudio /mnt/cdaudio1 iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
Then, the cdrom worked fine but i was still getting this error for the cdrw
Could not mount device.
The reported error was:
mount: special device /dev/cdaudio does not exist
in the /mnt dir there is a cdrom folder and a cdaudio folder
i just tried burning an ISO image using the cd rw and it worked fine. On the other hand though, when i create a new device cdrw on my desktop , i get the above error
ls -al /dev | grep cd
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 29, 0 Apr 14 2001 aztcd0
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 41, 0 Apr 14 2001 bpcd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 May 17 22:45 cdrom -> sr0
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 24, 0 Apr 14 2001 cdu535
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 30, 0 Apr 14 2001 cm206cd0
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 16, 0 Apr 14 2001 gscd0
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 24, 0 Apr 14 2001 lmscd
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 23, 0 Apr 14 2001 mcd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 May 17 22:40 mcdx -> mcdx0
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 20, 0 Apr 14 2001 mcdx0
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 20, 1 Apr 14 2001 mcdx1
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 20, 2 Apr 14 2001 mcdx2
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 20, 3 Apr 14 2001 mcdx3
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 20, 4 Apr 14 2001 mcdx4
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 17, 0 Apr 14 2001 optcd
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 46, 0 Jun 2 2001 pcd0
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 46, 1 Jun 2 2001 pcd1
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 46, 2 Jun 2 2001 pcd2
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 46, 3 Jun 2 2001 pcd3
crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 2, 221 Apr 14 2001 ptycd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 May 17 22:40 sbpcd -> sbpcd0
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 25, 0 Apr 14 2001 sbpcd0
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 25, 1 Apr 14 2001 sbpcd1
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 25, 2 Apr 14 2001 sbpcd2
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 25, 3 Apr 14 2001 sbpcd3
brw-rw-r-- 1 root cdrom 11, 0 May 30 2001 scd0
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 11, 1 May 30 2001 scd1
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 11, 10 May 30 2001 scd10
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 11, 11 May 30 2001 scd11
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 11, 12 May 30 2001 scd12
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 11, 13 May 30 2001 scd13
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 11, 14 May 30 2001 scd14
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 11, 15 May 30 2001 scd15
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 11, 16 May 30 2001 scd16
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 11, 2 May 30 2001 scd2
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 11, 3 May 30 2001 scd3
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 11, 4 May 30 2001 scd4
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 11, 5 May 30 2001 scd5
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 11, 6 May 30 2001 scd6
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 11, 7 May 30 2001 scd7
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 11, 8 May 30 2001 scd8
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 11, 9 May 30 2001 scd9
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 18, 0 Apr 14 2001 sjcd
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 15, 0 Apr 14 2001 sonycd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 May 17 22:40 sr0 -> scd0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 May 17 22:40 sr1 -> scd1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 May 17 22:40 sr10 -> scd10
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 May 17 22:40 sr11 -> scd11
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 May 17 22:40 sr12 -> scd12
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 May 17 22:40 sr13 -> scd13
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 May 17 22:40 sr14 -> scd14
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 May 17 22:40 sr15 -> scd15
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 May 17 22:40 sr16 -> scd16
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 May 17 22:40 sr2 -> scd2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 May 17 22:40 sr3 -> scd3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 May 17 22:40 sr4 -> scd4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 May 17 22:40 sr5 -> scd5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 May 17 22:40 sr6 -> scd6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 May 17 22:40 sr7 -> scd7
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 May 17 22:40 sr8 -> scd8
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 May 17 22:40 sr9 -> scd9
crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 3, 221 Apr 14 2001 ttycd
as of today , this is my fstab
/etc/fstab: filesystem table.
#
# filesystem mountpoint type options dump pass
/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /floppy vfat defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=022 0 0
/dev/dvd /dvd iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
/dev/cdaudio /mnt/cdaudio iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hdb5 /mnt/hdb5 ntfs noauto,users,exec,ro,umask=000 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=000 0 0
i do not have a dvd drive but the dvd in the fstab was entered by knoppix , not by me.
in the / root partition i see a folder named cdaudio and another one cdrom
in the /dev directory i see only a cdrom nothing for cdaudio
once again i did not give my cdrw the name cdaudio. It was named like that by default.
ls -al /dev/dvd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 May 17 22:45 /dev/dvd -> /KNOPPIX/dev/dvd
i do not have a dvd drive. Myabe knoppix thinks the cdrw is a dvd ???
ls -al /dev/cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 May 17 22:45 /dev/cdrom -> sr0
i have 2 IDE devices. one cd rom and one cd rw
please help as this thing is driving me nuts
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