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Most Stupid Question Ever... Cant find answer...

Because I am not really good at English. I have opensuse 10.2 and I cannot find the place where, when I put my dvd in, is supposed to be... Like D: under windows you understand? This is stupid I know because my usb external drive is under /media but the DVD drive is not under /dev or /mnt.... here is my fstab

Code:

/dev/sda7            /                    ext3      acl,user_xattr        1 1

/dev/sda8            /home                ext3      acl,user_xattr        1 2

/dev/sda1            /windows/C          ntfs      ro,users,gid=users,umask=00

02,nls=utf8 0 0

/dev/sda3            /windows/D          vfat      users,gid=users,umask=0002,

utf8=true 0 0

/dev/sda5            /windows/E          vfat      users,gid=users,umask=0002,

utf8=true 0 0

/dev/sda6            swap                swap      defaults              0 0

proc                /proc                proc      defaults              0 0

sysfs                /sys                sysfs      noauto                0 0

debugfs              /sys/kernel/debug    debugfs    noauto                0 0

usbfs                /proc/bus/usb        usbfs      noauto                0 0

devpts              /dev/pts            devpts    mode=0620,gid=5      0 0

/etc/fstab lines 1-11/11 (END)

Sorry to bother with that!

well, it's not listed in fstab, but most modern distros put it in /media/dvd or /media/something.

Nope, here are the ls of both of them...

Code:

/dev:

adsp

agpgart

audio

blog

bus

cdrecorder

cdrom

console

core

device-mapper

disk

dsp

dvd

dvdram

fd

full

fwmonitor

hpet

i2c-0

initctl

input

kmem

kmsg

log

loop0

loop1

loop2

loop3

loop4

loop5

loop6

loop7

mapper

md0

md1

md10

md11

md12

md13

md14

md15

md16

md17

md18

md19

md2

md20

md21

md22

md23

md24

md25

md26

md27

md28

md29

md3

md30

md31

md4

md5

md6

md7

md8

md9

mem

mixer

net

null

port

ppp

psaux

ptmx

pts

ptyp0

ptyp1

ptyp2

ptyp3

ptyp4

ptyp5

ptyp6

ptyp7

ptyp8

ptyp9

ptypa

ptypb

ptypc

ptypd

ptype

ptypf

ptyq0

ptyq1

ptyq2

ptyq3

ptyq4

ptyq5

ptyq6

ptyq7

ptyq8

ptyq9

ptyqa

ptyqb

ptyqc

ptyqd

ptyqe

ptyqf

ptyr0

ptyr1

ptyr2

ptyr3

ptyr4

ptyr5

ptyr6

ptyr7

ptyr8

ptyr9

ptyra

ptyrb

ptyrc

ptyrd

ptyre

ptyrf

ptys0

ptys1

ptys2

ptys3

ptys4

ptys5

ptys6

ptys7

ptys8

ptys9

ptysa

ptysb

ptysc

ptysd

ptyse

ptysf

ram0

ram1

ram10

ram11

ram12

ram13

ram14

ram15

ram2

ram3

ram4

ram5

ram6

ram7

ram8

ram9

random

route

rtc

sda

sda1

sda2

sda3

sda5

sda6

sda7

sda8

sg0

sg1

shm

skip

snapshot

snd

sr0

stderr

stdin

stdout

tty

tty0

tty1

tty10

tty11

tty12

tty13

tty14

tty15

tty16

tty17

tty18

tty19

tty2

tty20

tty21

tty22

tty23

tty24

tty25

tty26

tty27

tty28

tty29

tty3

tty30

tty31

tty32

tty33

tty34

tty35

tty36

tty37

tty38

tty39

tty4

tty40

tty41

tty42

tty43

tty44

tty45

tty46

tty47

tty48

tty49

tty5

tty50

tty51

tty52

tty53

tty54

tty55

tty56

tty57

tty58

tty59

tty6

tty60

tty61

tty62

tty63

tty7

tty8

tty9

ttyp0

ttyp1

ttyp2

ttyp3

ttyp4

ttyp5

ttyp6

ttyp7

ttyp8

ttyp9

ttypa

ttypb

ttypc

ttypd

ttype

ttypf

ttyq0

ttyq1

ttyq2

ttyq3

ttyq4

ttyq5

ttyq6

ttyq7

ttyq8

ttyq9

ttyqa

ttyqb

ttyqc

ttyqd

ttyqe

ttyqf

ttyr0

ttyr1

ttyr2

ttyr3

ttyr4

ttyr5

ttyr6

ttyr7

ttyr8

ttyr9

ttyra

ttyrb

ttyrc

ttyrd

ttyre

ttyrf

ttys0

ttyS0

ttys1

ttyS1

ttys2

ttyS2

ttys3

ttyS3

ttys4

ttyS4

ttys5

ttyS5

ttys6

ttyS6

ttys7

ttyS7

ttys8

ttys9

ttysa

ttysb

ttysc

ttysd

ttyse

ttysf

urandom

usbdev1.1_ep00

usbdev1.1_ep81

usbdev1.4_ep00

usbdev1.4_ep81

usbdev2.1_ep00

usbdev2.1_ep81

usbdev3.1_ep00

usbdev3.1_ep81

usbdev4.1_ep00

usbdev4.1_ep81

usbdev5.1_ep00

usbdev5.1_ep81

vcs

vcs1

vcs10

vcs2

vcs3

vcs4

vcs5

vcs6

vcs7

vcsa

vcsa1

vcsa10

vcsa2

vcsa3

vcsa4

vcsa5

vcsa6

vcsa7

watchdog

xconsole

zero



/media:

EDIT: When I right click the DVD under my computer, it tells me that the location is

/media (system)
mountpoint: /media/ ???????

Your /dev lists these cd/dvd devices:

cdrom
cdrecorder
dvd

So, add these lines to your fstab (taken from my SusSE 9.3 fstab):

/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,rw,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/dvd /media/dvd subfs noauto,fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0

Then create the mount points in /media

mkdir cdrom
mkdir cdrecorder
mkdir dvd

Then reboot to see if that works.

OpenSuse 10.2 doesnt need you to add a complex line into FSTAB

Place a DVD in your DVD drive

Open Your Computer
KDE has an Icon called
Storage Media

system:/media

you will see your DVD disc there
it will be the same name as the disk

it will be quietly loaded/mounted for you in /media/[name of Disc]

Quote:

Originally Posted by carl0ski

No, this is what Im talking about, I need the path of it, because I want to point a program to it. And it is not /media/[name of Disc] ...

On my suse 10.0:

Code:

mount |grep dvd

/dev/hdd on /media/dvdrecorder type subfs (ro,nosuid,nodev,fs=cdfss,procuid,iocharset=utf8)

hth

Yeah but 10.2 is diffrent. It handles things at your place, which sucks... Anyways thanks everyone for trying... Guess it wasnt that stupid after all ;)

One last try please:
Put the DVD in. Navigate to /dev/dvd. Are your files there?

um from the looks of your fstab
are you having trouble accessing your window drives?

Try searching the Suse documentation. I used to use Suse 10.1, and as I recall it did awfully weird things to mountpoints.

You can try to open the DVD by Konqueror then right-click on any folder (if any) and check Properties: look at "Mounted on:" to retrieve the path to the DVD.

Quote:

Originally Posted by tredegar

One last try please:
Put the DVD in. Navigate to /dev/dvd. Are your files there?

Nope

Quote:

um from the looks of your fstab
are you having trouble accessing your window drives?

Absolutely not... Why would I have a problem doing so?

Quote:

You can try to open the DVD by Konqueror then right-click on any folder (if any) and check Properties: look at "Mounted on:" to retrieve the path to the DVD.

Been there done that... tells me it under /media/ (system) ... WTF is that?

Quote:

I used to use Suse 10.1, and as I recall it did awfully weird things to mountpoints.

Indeed!

I dont really need that anymore, but its just by curiosity... If I ever need to boot in INIT3 forget it, I wont be able to browse my DVD drive.... pretty clever!

In 10.1, the media:// protocol always seemed to me as a way of making linux mountpoints into Windows drive letters. Perhaps in 10.2 Suse took this a step further, and tried to make the actual underlying mountpoints inaccessible, so that you could always think of them like a drive letter. Maybe check for hidden folder names?

Your guess is as good as mine! But it really is a wrong way of doing this coming from suse... I mean, they probably want to ease the tasks for those "windowers" wanting to give linux a try, but it just plain sucks. If they cant find a drive, then dont use linux at all... Anyways sorry for my rant :|