I'm having trouble with my cd burner on slackware. I'm not sure what type of cd burner it is, but it's an internal one. When I go to my devices window in KDE, there are icons for my regular cd drive, a floppy, and 2 partitions. There is no icon for my cd burner. Is linux supposed to autodetect my cd writer like it did for the regular cdrom drive or am I supposed to configure it somehow? Any help is greatly appreciated!!

Also, how can I permanently mount my cdrom drive and my windows partition?

You will need to provide a little more information about the CD drive for more specific instructions. What you will need to do is mount the CD to your filesystem. SLackware usually puts a line in your /etc/fstab that does this for you when you issue the command 'mount /mnt/cdrom'. All files on the CD will then be placed in the /mnt/cdrom directory. If you do not have this line already in the fstab, add it: You can add 'users' to the options if you want non-root users to be able to mount it as well.

let me know if you have any other questions.

regards,
...drkstr

hmm.. i'm just gonna put this one on hold.. my cd burner is so dusty it cant even read right now. I should pick up one of those discs with the bristles underneath.

I have another question.. is it possible to permanently mount the regular cd rom drive and my windows partition?

Yes, read man fstab & post back what you don't understand.

Yes, you can automatically mount the windows drive at boot up. BTW you are mounting the filesystem i.e. the data on the CD and not the drive. You can automatically mount a CD at boot but disk is not present at boot you will see errors and you will still need to unmount when you want to swap CDs.

After re-reading your post, I realized you have 2 CD drives. '/mnt/cdrom' is usually a shortcut to your first CD drive. It would probably be better for you to use the actual device names in this case .

/dev/hda = Primary Master
/dev/hdb = Primary Slave
/dev/hdc = Secondary Master
/dev/hdd = Secondary Slave

Your CD drives would probably be hdc & hdd and you will need a line for each of them in the fstab.

As far as windows drives go, just look at another line in the /etc/fstab that mounts one of your partitions to get an idea of what you need. You will need to change the filesystem to either vfat or ntfs (no write support for ntfs). If this is a fat32 drive, you will need to add umask=000 (or the desired variant) to set rw permissions. As suggested above, type 'man mount' for a full list of options and post back if you do not understand any of it (man pages can be somewhat daunting when you're new to Linux)


regards,
...drkstr