CD ROM not accesible after hdinstall, thank u!

[ricardomardi]

Hi all,
I managed to reinstall knoppix differently this time, Instead of knx-hdinstall, I did knoppix-installer.
This time it correctly linked my DVD & CD-RW.

I wonder why knoppix correctly linked my CDs & Fdd this time round, I know that knoppix-installer is a different process.

I coppied the fstab from the new install so that you can see the difference to the first one I copied off the fstab from the non working install earlier.



# /etc/fstab: filesystem table.
#
# filesystem mountpoint type options dump pass
/dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /floppy vfat defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=022 0 0
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /cdrom1 iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 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/cdrom1 /mnt/auto/cdrom1 auto users,noauto,exec,ro 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ntfs noauto,users,exec,ro,umask=000,uid=knoppix,gid=kno ppix 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda6 none swap defaults 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda7 /mnt/hda7 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0




Thank you all for your help, I've learnt a lot since my last post. Thanks again!
R.

[dutch noob]

i had excactly the same problems but after reading this tread and saw knoppix-installer solved ur problems i tried it to and voila everything works fine now

[ricardomardi]

Hi Dutch noob,

Thanks for the note, it's funny that I actualy helped you while I was acting like a blind man without a cane!

It's a great feeling to work out issues in Linux.
Even if we're noobs, it's only a matter of time b4 we start to get a good grip & start helping others on board this Great Linux spaceship, perseverence is the word!

Good like to you Dutch, & many thanks to all the you guys who helped me!

Ricardo
(Down under)

[ricardomardi]

Hi all,

Just a thought, I do a final install of Knoppix after I've experimented with a spare HDD. This way I can totaly screw up & install without any fear or stress of crippling my main HDD & actualy learn a lot more that way than if I nervously tried to "get it right" the first time I install.

I use a spare 12gb notebook hdd, cause I'm a laptop motherboard technician & have spare parts to play with.


My attitude to learning Linux is, don't over do it, if you can't figure out a problem, just sleep on it, the answer will come. Treat it like play & you'll always enjoy it.

And always look at how far you've come, instead of how far you have to go. After all, you're playing with Debian, & that's got to be the best Linux to learn with.

Good luck to all!
R.

[dutch noob]

yeah its hard to do some thing with linux but when u keep trieing and playing with it u learn it afterall

and i am glad we got so much support from other linux user they r to kind
and i hope in the near future i am posting things that can help other people with there problems


but i still find it weird that when u instal knx with knx-hdinstall it not link the cd roms correctly and when u instal it with knoppix-installer it does ?

but oke there r lots of thing that i dont understand yet but iv got lots of time to learn it

and yes i am a total noob