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Old 05-16-2002, 09:50 PM   #1
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Unhappy 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?

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Old 05-16-2002, 10:45 PM   #2
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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.
 
Old 05-16-2002, 11:05 PM   #3
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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?

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Old 05-17-2002, 12:00 AM   #4
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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.

 
Old 05-17-2002, 12:06 AM   #5
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jfbertrand:

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

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