I just loaded RH9 onto my notebook, and, in general, it works. However, I cannot get the cdrom to work, and I cannot recognize or mount any of the ntfs partitions on the notebook. The most important thing is the CDROM. I suspect I just need to load a module for the ntfs support.

I loaded the software with the cdrom, so I can't figure out why it does not mount. When I type mount /mnt/cdrom I get the message:
[root@localhost root]# mount /mnt/cdrom
mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist

My /etc/fsab file looks like this:
[root@localhost etc]# cat fstab
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,users,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0

The cdrom is scd0

my /mnt directory looks like this:

[root@localhost mnt]# ls -la
total 20
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Dec 14 13:44 .
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 Dec 14 14:10 ..
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Dec 14 13:32 cdrom
drwxrwxrwx 2 root root 4096 Dec 14 13:44 floppy
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 14 13:06 windows

Does anyone have any idea what my problem is?

TIA

This may be a silly question, but when you examine the /dev directory, is there a cdrom entry?

For instance when I run...

root@linux-xxx:/dev# ls -l cdrom

I get...

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Nov 16 09:37 cdrom -> /dev/sr0

Hi! I've got the same exact problem with a new installation of RH9. My output says no such file or directory. However, i do see a cdwriter (which should be true). I'm so confused! Please try to help me, kind soul...

Is your fstab correct:

/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,users,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0

/mnt/cdrom is mentioned three times and /dev/cdrom is mentioned twice.

Try taking the othe ones out or renaming

Ian