...Burned CDs. it won't even read a CD it read before! i'm running slackware...I put it in, it says something like Bad Superblock, Missing Code...blah blah blah dmesg | tail...blah blah....Whats wrong and how do i fix it ...All i wanted was wine, is that to much to ask ?

Well i'm at it i would also like to know something else...I've installed slackware about 9 times now...and 4 or 5 of those time after it searches for a CD and doesn't find one, and continues to boot, it starts going

99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99 99

Except like a million and one times(But not really, only about 3 and a half lines)
It could be Hex code, but i don't get why it would be the same hex over and over...so i don't think it is...

Anywho its not happening now(don't know why).

what does your /etc/fstab look like? Post it. were you able to mount cds before? have you looked in the slackware forum? ask the moderator to move.

My what?

and yes i was able to mount burned CDs, i can mount AoE2 and FF7 but i can't do anything with them because wine is on a burned CD...

The file named "fstab" in the /etc directory. It contains a list of partitions on your hard disks, rewritable drives, etc. If you can actually boot linux, open up a terminal and type "cat /etc/fstab" (without the quotes) and copy and paste the output.

how do i look at it?

open it with a text editor

ie:

# <text editor> /etc/fstab

Ok, i found it....now i'm going to be running up and down stairs to get it done...


/dev/hda1 / reiserfs defaults 1 1
/dev/hda2 /hda2 /reiesers defaults 1 2
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto owner, ro 0 0
/dev/fdo /mnt/floppy auto noauto owner 0 0
/dev/pts /dev/pts devpts gid=5, mode=620 0 0
/proc /proc proc defaults 0 0



Ok....now i'm not sure if i wrote it out right, only thing that would be wrong would be the slashes...if its important i will correct it for you.

does it mount the cd drive at all when you tell it to?

no....i will go write it down and copy it....damn old fashion paper and pen....

Mount: Wrong fs type, bad option, bad super block on dev/cdrom
Missing Code Page
(Could this be the IDE device where you in fact use
ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?)
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg |tail or so

check to make sure that /dev/cdrom is your actual cdrom--

it might be /dev/hdb, /dev/hdc, or something else.

???

It says /dev/cdrom/...

where do i look to make sure thats right?

well, if its not mounting when you tell it to, its probly not right..

so change it, and see if it works. when i was using debian i put in cd, booted, and saw what device it was reading the cd from... then i changed my fstab to fit the bill...

there might be an easier way to do it, like a hardware detect, but im in teh dark on that--maybe someone else knows how to do it.

How do i change it?

change the owner to users