I cannot mount the cdrom or floppy after upgrading (clean install) of Mandrake 8.2. In KDE the CDROM and Floppy icons are locked. I also get an error that cdrom cannot be found in fstab when I try to mount it in a terminal. I only have 1 CD-ROM and 1 floppy drive. Here are 3 items that may help:

[root@localhost etc]# ls -la /dev | grep cdrom
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 13 Jun 25 07:16 cdrom -> cdroms/cdrom0
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 13 Jun 25 07:16 cdrom0 -> cdroms/cdrom0
drwxr-xr-x 1 root root 0 Dec 31 1969 cdroms/

[root@localhost etc]# ls -l /dev/cdrom
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 13 Jun 25 07:16 /dev/cdrom -> cdroms/cdrom0

Contents of fstab:
/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda3 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0
/mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=vfat,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,sync,codepage=850 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0

The fstab shows dev=/dev/hdc, but I'm linking to cdroms/cdrom0. Do I need to relink it to hdc? What's all this cdroms/cdrom0 output anyway? Any ideas?

Whoops - this probably should have went in Hardware forum.

I'm not sure about the supermount line but it don't look like you need it to me

/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom


the /dev/hdc is the master secondary, is that your cdrom

here is mine




[david@Micro lun0]$ ls -l /dev/hdc
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 30 Jun 25 13:51 /dev/hdc -> ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd
[david@Micro lun0]$ ls -l /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd
brw------- 1 david cdrom 22, 0 May 23 17:02 /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/cd



mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom

to use /etc/fstab

default mandrake:

/etc/fstab file entry

/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0

[david@Micro david]$ mount /dev/hdc

As root run mount /mnt/cdrom and see if it mounts. If it does, then try logging in as a user and run the same command. If it doesn't mount, then add user to the cdrom line in the fstab file and try mounting again.

/mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount user,dev=/dev/hdc,fs=iso9660,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0

Well, I swear I'm not crazy - the CD I couldn't access was a bunch of rpms I downloaded off of my WinXP box and burned to CD (it has cable modem and is much faster to download stuff). I thought maybe there was a compatablity problem, so I took that out and put in CD#2 of the Mandrake install and in KDE it allowed me to mount and read the contents. So I put back in the rpms CD and I can read that one in KDE now. I no longer have the locked CDROM icon. And this was without editing the fstab, or setting new permissions! Thanks for the help anyway.

Really, I'm not crazy! Plus I've got KDE 3.0.1 now, sweet!

Maybe there was some dirt on it. Glad it's working now.

I, too, am having the same problem using Mandrake 8.2: I can't mount the cdrom or floppy. I added the cdrom and floppy to my user using 'userdrake', but that didn't work. Also, when I try to access /etc/fstab (as root) I get: 'Permission denied'. I even tried what worked for TlitJ: I put in the Mandrake 8.2 CD 2 (which I could access) but once I put in another CD it was 'no access rights' again.

I tried '/mnt/cdrom' as root and I got: 'bash: /mnt/cdrom: is a directory'

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Sam

Umm, "supermount" works fine in my Mandrake 8.2, that was one of the fixes in the relase in fact. All you do is pop in a floppy (or CD) and it's mounted and available for use -- immediately. No need to specifically enter "mount" or "umount" commands anywhere.

I would not recommend removing supermount from the fstab entry for either the floppy or the CDROM devices, unless you can absolutely prove that they are not working.

Something is very bad wrong if you can't edit fstab as root

quote:

when I try to access /etc/fstab (as root) I get: 'Permission denied'.




what do you mean by access?

are you using vi or something like it.

please help!
After celebrating a successfull installation of ManDrake, i am now faced with this. When i click the cdrom, or the floppy icon on the KDE DE, i get an error message saying i dont have permission. I tryed this as user, and root. Then to my horror i noticed when i clicked the cdrom icon, the floppy drive light went on. Im not sure where to begin, any help will be greatly appreciated!!!

show us the output of the following commands

cat /etc/fstab

cat ~/Desktop/<name of floppy file>
cat ~/Desktop/<name of cdrom file>


ls -l /dev/cdrom
ls -l /dev/fd0