I need to mount the cdrom to load SuSe.

The /dev directory contains:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2006-11-09 02:31 cdrom -> hda
brw-r----- 1 root disk 24, 0 2002-10-21 09:57 cdu535
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 19, 128 2002-10-21 09:57 cdouble0
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 19, 129 2002-10-21 09:57 cdouble1

Should I blast the cdrom link and put a new one in pointing to cdrom -> /media/cdrom?, or?.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you.
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What does /media directory contain?

Have you tried:

mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom

Thanks for the response.

As stated above, the /dev/ directory as below, does not contain an entry for the cdrom that does not point to the hda disk.

Yes, I even went so far ar to try what you pointed out befor I posted on the forum. The /media directory contains directories for cdrom and floppy.

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Nov 9 02:31 cdrom -> hda
brw-r----- 1 root disk 24, 0 Oct 21 2002 cdu535
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 19, 128 Oct 21 2002 cdouble0
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 19, 129 Oct 21 2002 cdouble1

So, because I'm putting this beast together, I can bust and fix anything if necessary. I can always start over.

So what kind of message did you get when you tried:

yale:/dev # mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom
mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device

Could you post the output from the following command:

and the contents of /etc/fstab

yale:/dev # df -vh
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb2 3.1G 1.6G 1.5G 52% /
shmfs 125M 0 125M 0% /dev/shm
yale:/dev #

and

/dev/sdb2 / reiserfs defaults 1 1
/dev/sdb1 swap swap pri=42 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0
fstab lines 1-7/7 (END)

Thanks for the quick replies.

Lets try and run the following command if you haven't already:

Cheers

Woo Hoo!!!

It mounted the cdrom:
yale:/etc # mount /dev/hda /media/cdrom
mount: block device /dev/hda is write-protected, mounting read-only
yale:/etc # cd /media/cdrom
yale:/media/cdrom # l
total 62
drwxrwxrwx 9 root bin 2048 Dec 16 2003 ./
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 96 Oct 21 2002 ../
drwxr-xr-x 3 root 60001 2048 Dec 9 2003 BDMA/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root 60001 2048 Dec 9 2003 DBLD/
drwxr-xr-x 4 root 60001 2048 Dec 9 2003 ICONNECT/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root 60001 2048 Dec 9 2003 JDBC/
-r-xr-xr-x 1 root 60001 7211 Nov 17 2003 README.html*
drwxr-xr-x 3 root 60001 2048 Dec 9 2003 SERVER/
drwxr-xr-x 3 root 60001 2048 Dec 9 2003 SVR_ADM/
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 60001 39065 Nov 26 2003 ids_install*
drwxr-xr-x 2 root 60001 2048 Dec 9 2003 images/
yale:/media/cdrom #

The read is possible and I will probably start the install in the AM.

I am really appreciative of all you put up with, and all of your rapid replies.

Once again, THANK YOU!

Your welcome and have a good evening.


Regards,

Fordeck