[Gllug] Mount problems

[Dylan]

I have just (re) installed Suse 7.1 from scratch.

The machine has 3 IDE hard drives (hda, hdb, hdd) and a DVD ROM (hdc), along 
with a SCSI hard drive (sda).

A) During boot, I get a message telling me that mounting sda has failed, 
although the drive and contents (/usr) are present and operational in the 
filesystem - should I be worried about this? What sort of thing may cause 
this?

B) The DVD appears in the filesystem under /cdrom, and  /dvd is empty. If I 
try re-mounting (by hand or with mount -a) I am told the DVD is empty/not 
present/busy. The relevant lines in fstab say:

/dev/cdrom, /cdrom, auto, ro,auto,user,exec 0 0
/dev/dvd, /dvd, auto, ro,autouser,exec 0 0

I tried removing the dvd entry and edited the cd entry to mount on /dvd - 
after rebooting, the situation had not changed (still apearing on /cdrom.)

/dev contains two links cdrom and dvd - when I check the properties of each I 
get an error: /dev/... is a file when a directory was expected (or words to 
that effect.) then it simply shows me the filename and permissions (I was 
expecting a target as well.)

At some point I will want to add a SCSI CDrom to the box, and obviously I 
want to mount that on /cdrom and the dvd on /dvd.  Any suggestions as to what 
changes to files I need to make in order to accomplish this?

Thanks

Dylan

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