Can't access CD-ROM's in Redhat 7.3
 

I installed Redhat 7.3 last night. Now that it's installed and I'm up and running (I'm posting this via Galeon in Redhat) I can't seem to access my two CD-ROM drives or my floppy drive. The CD I'm trying to access is Disk two of my installation cd's, so I know the disk is good and has data on it, as I just installed Redhat from it last night.

When I open Konqueror and type "/mnt/cdrom" , "/mnt/cdrom1/" , or "/mnt/floppy/" and my drive lights don't flicker and the drives don't spin up. Konqueror then shows the contents of the drives to be "0 Items 0 Files 0 Directories". I look under Control Panel/ Hardware Browser and both of the CD-ROM drives are identified correctly. Am I doing something wrong?

I had Mandrake 8.2 installed on my pc before trying out Redhat. Everything worked great then. Am I missing something?

Thanks,

1611AV out...

You have to mount your removable media first, put CD's into drives then open a Xterm and issue
mount /mn/cdrom
mount /mnt/cdrom1
You might want to do it as root though, if it doesn't work, post the contents of your /etc/fstab file here, we'll take a look.

What a pain. :( In Mandrake 8.2 you can set your drives to supermount so you don't have to do it manually. Can Redhat 7.3 do that?

1611AV out...

You don't need to mount it manually.
You only need to do that if you are loged in as root.

If you log in as a regular user, it will automount for you.

At least mine does (and has been since RH 6.2 I think).

RH7.3 has a lot of cool features.

:Pengy:

jfbertrand:

Thanks! I didn't know that about logging in as /root.

1611 out...