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01-08-2008, 06:16 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2008
Location: Denmark
Posts: 7
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Can't mount cdrom
Hello
I'm using Linux Mint 4.0 and I'm pretty new to linux. I have a problem that I hope someone could help me with.
When I try to mount my cdrom I get the following message: Unable to mount the selected volume - mount: special device /dev/scd0 does not exist.
My fstab file says:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda1
UUID=af42da92-0fe4-4286-8525-8ed80865d241 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda5
UUID=ff67f784-a81b-43b4-82fd-01820541e214 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0 0
When I boot from the CD the scd0 does exist but when I boot from sda it doesn't.
I hope that I have given enough information and that someone is able to help me.
Thanks in advance
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01-08-2008, 06:19 PM
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Untangle
Registered: Jan 2008
Location: Mountain View, CA
Distribution: Ubuntu
Posts: 9
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/dev/cdrom
try just /dev/cdrom there is code to try to map this to the correct cdrom device.
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01-08-2008, 06:25 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2008
Location: Denmark
Posts: 7
Original Poster
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Same as before
I still get the "Unable to mount"-message
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01-08-2008, 08:44 PM
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Member
Registered: Dec 2007
Location: Brazil
Distribution: slackware 13
Posts: 151
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Have you ever heard of HAL (Desktop automounting)? It works like windows does
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...omount-566948/
Last edited by marciobarbalho; 01-08-2008 at 08:49 PM.
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01-09-2008, 12:19 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2008
Location: Denmark
Posts: 7
Original Poster
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I'm a newbie
No I have not heard about Hal but i followed your link and I don't understand much of it. Is it a program that will help me mount my cdrom?
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01-10-2008, 01:31 PM
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Untangle
Registered: Jan 2008
Location: Mountain View, CA
Distribution: Ubuntu
Posts: 9
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Yes, if HAL is working it should just automatically mount the cdrom under /media/somename where somename is the label on the cd drive as soon as you insert the cdrom without requiring any changes to /etc/fstab
HAL is included on all recent linux distributions. If this is not happening then there may be a driver issue.
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01-10-2008, 02:40 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2008
Location: Denmark
Posts: 7
Original Poster
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Works under boot
But my cdrom drive works perfectly when I boot from the CD. In /media I have a cdrom-folder but when I open it, it is emty. When I boot from the CD I have /dev/scd0 but it's just not there when I boot from my harddisk.
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01-10-2008, 02:52 PM
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Member
Registered: Mar 2006
Location: Ohio, USA
Distribution: Red Hat, Fedora, Knoppix,
Posts: 548
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WAG here, since you are a newbie ....
what exactly do you type when issueing the mount command?
ie:
mount /dev/scd0 /cdrom
where /dev/scdZERO not capital o
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01-10-2008, 02:56 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2008
Location: Denmark
Posts: 7
Original Poster
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I type: sudo mount /dev/scd0* /media/cdrom0
*Is zero
Then I get Special device /dev/scd0 does not exist
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