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A small / BIG problem can ya please help..... with my "mount" setup....

I am using S.u.S.E. Linux 5.3 with KDE... and I like it... But I can't
mount
my SCSI CD-ROM.... My controller is supported and I did use it to
Install linux
but now I can't mount it. In "YaST" for the mount points I can see it
but it is grayed out ?

I treed mounting it form the X Term ( I am ROOT user) with,
"mount -t iso9660 -r /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom" and I get Not a valid block
device ?

I also did edit my "fstab" file an the line for my CD-ROM is there....
"/dev/scd0         /cdrom          iso9660       ro,noauto,user 0   0"

so what is going on, do I need to boot with a SCSI kernel, I am booting
with
a IDED kernel because I do not have any SCSI hard drives.... also I
can't mount my darn
floppy drive as well ??? what is going on ???

Rich     - please E-mail if you can....

Quote:> A small / BIG problem can ya please help..... with my "mount" setup....

> I am using S.u.S.E. Linux 5.3 with KDE... and I like it... But I can't
> mount
> my SCSI CD-ROM.... My controller is supported and I did use it to
> Install linux
> but now I can't mount it. In "YaST" for the mount points I can see it
> but it is grayed out ?

> I treed mounting it form the X Term ( I am ROOT user) with,
> "mount -t iso9660 -r /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom" and I get Not a valid block
> device ?

Check that /dev/cdrom is pointing to /dev/scd0
(i.e. do the following command:
  ls -l /dev/cdrom
)
If not, you can simply replace in the mount command /dev/cdrom
to /dev/scd0.
But the correct way would be, given that the line below is in fstab,
simply typing
  mount /cdrom

You should also check that the directory /cdrom exists, and if not, make one.
   mkdir /cdrom

Also, iso9660 file systems should be supported by the kernel - check this
as well.

Quote:

> I also did edit my "fstab" file an the line for my CD-ROM is there....
> "/dev/scd0         /cdrom          iso9660       ro,noauto,user 0   0"

> so what is going on, do I need to boot with a SCSI kernel, I am booting
> with

Certainly you need SCSI support built in the kernel.
(If you got such a kernel ready, then use it. If not,
make one. Changing a kernel is straightforward, although I don't know
how well kde supports this. )

Quote:> a IDED kernel because I do not have any SCSI hard drives.... also I
> can't mount my darn
> floppy drive as well ??? what is going on ???

That's different story - you should check that /dev/fd0 exists,
then the question is, which type of file system you want to be
there, etc...
Maybe your floppy refuses to mount for the similar to CD reason...
(type of file system unsupported by the kernel, mounting point, wrong
/dev/floppy link, etc)

Dmitrii

Unless you changed it /dev/cdrom is probably a soft link pointingto
/dev/hdd.  You were successful in installing from the cd-rom,
but the kernel you were using probably had scsi drivers.  I've never
used scsi, but my guess is that you are going to need to compile
scsi support into your kernel (or use modules).  First try using a
different device name. You might try
mount /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom
also take a look at /dev/cdrom and see where it points
ls -l /dev/cdrom
On my machine is says
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     root            3 Sep 14 07:37 /dev/cdrom -> hdd
This is the default I think.
hmmmm if the line in your /etc/fstab should work assuming the
directory /cdrom exists.  Try:
mount /cdrom
If it doesn't work I would put scsi support in your kernel.

-Andy

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Quote:>I treed mounting it form the X Term ( I am ROOT user) with,
>"mount -t iso9660 -r /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom" and I get Not a valid block
>device ?

Probably you didn't load the SCSI driver module. And /mnt/cdrom does
perhaps not exist.

Quote:>I also did edit my "fstab" file an the line for my CD-ROM is there....
>"/dev/scd0         /cdrom          iso9660       ro,noauto,user 0   0"

Try

mount /cdrom

and see what you get.

Quote:>so what is going on, do I need to boot with a SCSI kernel, I am booting
>with
>a IDED kernel because I do not have any SCSI hard drives....

There's the answer to your problem. The kernel booted during the installation
process did automatically scan for the existance of a SCSI card, and found
it. Your present kernel, however, doesn't have SCSI support.

Quote:>also I
>can't mount my darn
>floppy drive as well ??? what is going on ???

mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt

Michael
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