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Hope someone can help me I seem to be getting bogged down on problems.
First of all I have an old ibm thinkpad 800mhz processor running 128mb ram. I put the light version of Simplymepis 6.5 on a clean install and I think I may have a bios version issue however the system is running very well but I try to run a cd and I get:
Called: mount /dev/hdc
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so
I get a floppy drive that mounts instead on the desktop and then when i access it i get:
Could not mount device.
The reported error was:
mount: /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device
I ran dmesg | tail to see what was going on and i get:
Are you running HAL + dbus to make icons etc automatically mount and appear on desktop? IIRC you shouldn't put those types of entries in fstab if you are.
Distribution: Debian, Fedora 8 and 9, Mandriva 2009, Mepis, Kubuntu, SuSe 10.1, Slackware 12.1 - and Knoppix.
Posts: 155
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Been there! Mepis seems to use subtly different formats in fstab (or interprets differently, or some such). It's also not capable of handling SCSI devices (or mine isn't, anyway). I've got an IDE DVDROM drive connected, and it works fine.
For comparison, here's my Mepis fstab (without the raft of alternative SCSI stuff that doesn't work anyway):
You probably don't have all the partitions I do, so ignore the superfluous stuff. But the CDROM works, as does the floppy.
The difference seems to be that I have one entry for the CDROM, you have two: /dev/cdrom and /dev/hdc. Every other distro on my machine calls that CDROM hdd; Mepis doesn't.
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