can't mount cdrom or usb
 

This morning I reinstalled mandriva 2006 and tried setting the security to paranoid. but now I can't see dvd or usb drives. even logging in as root, I can't mount the dvd drive or mount the usb drive. using usbview I can see my usbdrive is recognized, but can't mount. I also tried setting msec to 3, but still no go. how can I get things to mount?

I can't say if it has anything to do with your security stuff, but if your cdrom is scsi, then you might need to make sure you have scsi modules loaded into the kernel (unless they're builtin):
and the same for ide-scsi probably..there was a third module that might be needed (?) but can't remember it's name. Check out
for the module names.

This was a reason why I was unable to mount any usb keys or flash cards, it only succeeded after modprob'ing the scsi modules..though, as I said, your problem is not necessarily because of this.

We need error messages to be able to help you. If you're not getting error messages, try mounting from a console.

Do you have any entries in etc/fstab for it. I've never had a problem with mandriva like this but in suse I had to make my own fstab entry and make a mount point for it.