Hi,

I'm having problem mounting CD-RW in my linux machine. I can mount it manually,
but I'm having problem during booting. I'm using RH 8. This is what I did:
ln -s /dev/hdd /dev/cdrom1
mkdir /mnt/cdrom1

Then, I modified /etc/fstab by adding this line:
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 iso9660 noauto,owner,kuzdu,ro 0 0

Then I usually umount -a and then mount -a.

In the first couple of reboot, usually the cdrom1 mounted nicely, but after that
, when I boot the system, I got error while updating /etc/fstab cannot stat /dev
/cdrom1 not found.

When I check, /dev/cdrom1 and /mnt/cdrom1 have been deleted, and /etc/fstab has
been modified. Usually, another line of /dev/cdrom1 ..... is added in fstab.

Any clue what happened? Is there a script somewhere that causes this to happen?

Thanks

Have you used any graphical configuration programs. I don't use RH, but in SuSE you run the chance of loosing any changes manually made once you run it's configuration utilities.

thereis an automounter program in RH (console or GUI) that handles mounting of cds/floppys for you and that deamon deleted your dirs probably. I don't think it's necessary to have fstab entry in you are using GUI, because when cd in inserted you'll get icon on your desktop with mounted cd

I dissagree with you Noerr, because a distrobution only know what to check for automounting through the /etc/fstab. Things like hotplug will automaticly add new devices to the fstab at boot, but automount requires fstab to know what to mount.

Can anybody confirm or deny this?

-Steve

No, I haven't use any graphical configuration program. I do not know whether RH8 run the configurator during boot or not. If it does, how do I get around the problem?

console automounter should't be messing your fstab so it must be some other app.
besides it is very very weird that link /dev/cdrom1 would get deleted on its own