i changed /mnt/cdrom to /mnt/CD-RW - now i've got a problem?!?!
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i changed /mnt/cdrom to /mnt/CD-RW - now i've got a problem?!?!
hi,
for organization purposes, i renamed my /mnt/cdrom to /mnt/CD-RW and /mnt/cdrom2 to /mnt/DVD-ROM. now here is the problem, whenever mandrake prompts me to insert an installation cd, it would look into /mnt/cdrom (the default directory for the cd-rom drive).
is there a way to tell mandrake that i have changed the directory name for my cd-rom drive?
by the way, this comes out in mandrake control center where most of the additional installations are made...
thats because you probably didn't ALSO make the changes to the /etc/fstab file...according to that, it still knows the mount points to be cdrom and cdrom2, so until you change the entries in the fstab these errors will re-occur..
lol, you can just make a link to the mount point:-
assuming your cdrom drive is hdc and your DVD drive is hdd,
rename everything back to what it was before, open a console and type (as root)
"ln -s /mnt/cdrom /mnt/CD-RW"
"ln -s /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/DVD-ROM"
that's the simplest solution, you could do it the other way around of course (ln -s /mnt/cd-RW /mnt/cdrom)...
(ln [target] link name)
Last edited by randomblast; 09-29-2003 at 11:18 AM.
Originally posted by DrOzz thats because you probably didn't ALSO make the changes to the /etc/fstab file...according to that, it still knows the mount points to be cdrom and cdrom2, so until you change the entries in the fstab these errors will re-occur..
of course i've changed it... no problem with that...
Originally posted by randomblast lol, you can just make a link to the mount point:-
assuming your cdrom drive is hdc and your DVD drive is hdd,
rename everything back to what it was before, open an console and type (as root)
"ln -s /mnt/cdrom /mnt/CD-RW"
"ln -s /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/DVD-ROM"
that's the simplest solution, you could do it the other way around of course (ln -s /mnt/cd-RW /mnt/cdrom)...
(ln [target] link name)
is there no other way??? if i would do that, then there won't any sense for me to rename the directory... my aim is to reduce the annoying and irritating numbers in directories
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is there no other way??? if i would do that, then there won't any sense for me to rename the directory... my aim is to reduce the annoying and irritating numbers in directories
