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Old 07-13-2001, 06:24 PM   #1
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Needing help with mounting cdrom and floppy


I just have installed the linux mandrake 7.2 I don't know why, but I can not read or write to floppy or read from the cdrom. I think that the autoloader does something wrong. Need help

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Old 07-13-2001, 06:36 PM   #2
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can you manually mount the cdrom or floppy..
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom or
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy

man mount for more details. does it give any errors when trying to mount or read from the devices?
 
Old 07-13-2001, 07:39 PM   #3
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i anderstand that, but how I can turn off automaunt and basically "erasy" info about cdrom and floppy drives?

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Old 07-13-2001, 07:45 PM   #4
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by the way -- system gives me input/output error message.
 
Old 07-13-2001, 08:43 PM   #5
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check out and edit your /etc/fstab file. that has info about your drives you can mount.... etc.
 
Old 07-13-2001, 09:40 PM   #6
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I believe that mandrake has supermount. Supermount has been causing a lot of problems for people. I think you can rid of it by editing your fstab file and by disabling it by running the command supermount -i disable. There's no guarantee that this will work.

Oh, about editing your fstab file. Let's say your floppy and cdrom entries look something like this:

/mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0
/mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0

Change it to this:

/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat noauto,user,rw 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user,ro 0 0

It might be necessary to change the /dev/cdrom entry to the actual device if the symbolic link /dev/cdrom doesn't point to your cdrom.

When you want to mount a floppy or cdrom, just use the mount command. Like this mount /mnt/floppy or mount /mnt/cdrom . Don't forget to umount before you remove the disks.
 
Old 07-13-2001, 10:03 PM   #7
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Thanks a lot. I think it will help. I booted into command line (run level 3) and tried to access devices from there. Nothing good happened. I could not read or write to a device. The error was "input/output error". I hope that you advice will help.

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