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Hi there,

I am installing RedHat 5.1 in a new machine, but after the installation
is complete I can't mount the CDROM. When I type  mount -t iso9660
/dev/cdrom /cdrom I get a message saying that the kernel doesn't support
iso9660 :-(  I didn't have such problem with Debian 2.0 but this should
be quite simple to fix on RedHat, isn't it?

I would appreciate any information about how to include support to
iso9660 CDs in the kernel.

Thanks in advance for your time,

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try editing the /etc/conf.modules and adding a line like "alias iso9660
isofs"
then try mounting it. If that doesn't work, try typing "insmod isofs"

tmk

Quote:>Hi there,

>I am installing RedHat 5.1 in a new machine, but after the installation
>is complete I can't mount the CDROM. When I type  mount -t iso9660
>/dev/cdrom /cdrom I get a message saying that the kernel doesn't support
>iso9660 :-(  I didn't have such problem with Debian 2.0 but this should
>be quite simple to fix on RedHat, isn't it?

>I would appreciate any information about how to include support to
>iso9660 CDs in the kernel.

>Thanks in advance for your time,

>---------------------------------------------------------------------
>         _/ _/    _/     Jauvane Cavalcante de Oliveira
>        _/ _/   _/      University of Ottawa
>       _/ _/  _/ _/_/  School of Information Technology & Engineering
>      _/ _/ _/ _/     Multimedia Communications Research Laboratory
>_/   _/ _/_/  _/     Phone:1(613)562-5800 Ext.6248/6243  FAX:562-5175
>_/_/_/ _/     _/_/  Canada     http://www2.mcrlab.uottawa.ca/~jauvane
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>|                Bolsista da CAPES - Brasilia/Brasil                |
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On Tue, 29 Sep 1998 18:57:41 -0400, "Jauvane C. de Oliveira"

|Hi there,
|
|I am installing RedHat 5.1 in a new machine, but after the installation
|is complete I can't mount the CDROM. When I type  mount -t iso9660
|/dev/cdrom /cdrom I get a message saying that the kernel doesn't
support
|iso9660 :-(  I didn't have such problem with Debian 2.0 but this should
|be quite simple to fix on RedHat, isn't it?
|
|I would appreciate any information about how to include support to
|iso9660 CDs in the kernel.
|
|Thanks in advance for your time,
|

I had the same problem.  The Red Hat 5.1 install doesn't appear to set
up the link from your CDROM device properly.  What I did was edit
/etc/fstab to mount /dev/hdc (my CDROM) as /mnt/cdrom.  I simply changed
the entry /dev/cdrom to /dev/hdc.  If you are using an IDE CDROM, the
device will be hda, hdb, hdc, or hdd.  This is a workaround, and you
should be able to properly link /dev/cdrom to your CDROM if you spend
some time with it.  The above solution worked for me, though.
Good luck
Seth Ramsey

: I am installing RedHat 5.1 in a new machine, but after the installation
: is complete I can't mount the CDROM. When I type  mount -t iso9660
: /dev/cdrom /cdrom I get a message saying that the kernel doesn't support
: iso9660 :-(  I didn't have such problem with Debian 2.0 but this should
: be quite simple to fix on RedHat, isn't it?

So don't type that.

There should be a line in /etc/fstab
/dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              iso9660 noauto,ro,user  0 0

mount /mnt/cdrom

should then mount the CD.
I have RedHat 5.1, and I didn't make any adjustments after install, except
for adding ",user" to the fstab, so normal users could mount cd.

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What it looks like more is that the isofs.o modules isn't loaded. If the above
suggestion didnt work, try 'insmod isofs' before attempting to mount. If the
/dev/cdrom wasn't a correct link to the appropriate device, make it by removing
the old link 'rm -f /dev/cdrom' and relinking it to the correct device 'ln -s
/dev/hd? /dev/cdrom' where ? = a, b, c or d depending which your drive is.

Please remove the .nospam from my addres when replying

Kind regards,
Alexander van Luijpen

Philips Semiconductors
Consumer Systems Nijmegen

All statements and/or opinions found in this message are of a personal nature,
and in no way represent any official statements of my employer Philips
Semiconductors

What it looks like more is that the isofs.o modules isn't loaded. If the above
suggestion didnt work, try 'insmod isofs' before attempting to mount. If the
/dev/cdrom wasn't a correct link to the appropriate device, make it by removing
the old link 'rm -f /dev/cdrom' and relinking it to the correct device 'ln -s
/dev/hd? /dev/cdrom' where ? = a, b, c or d depending which your drive is.

Please remove the .nospam from my addres when replying

Kind regards,
Alexander van Luijpen

Philips Semiconductors
Consumer Systems Nijmegen

All statements and/or opinions found in this message are of a personal nature,
and in no way represent any official statements of my employer Philips
Semiconductors

Hi there,

I've got exactly the same problem. The solutions you described doesn't work
here.
When I do 'insmod isofs', it says no module by that name found.
(I installed everything)

Regards,

Menno Lauwerens

Try ...

mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom