Fw: [Herefordshire] Installing DVD-CDrom

[Noel McG.]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Noel McG." <herlinux at hotmail.com>
To: <markb at wetlettuce.com>
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 6:52 PM
Subject: Re: [Herefordshire] Installing DVD-CDrom


> Hello,
>
> I have done the first part and get this result.  I am not sure if I should
> go any further as this seems to say that it is read only
>
> Noel.
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Mark Broadbent" <markb at wetlettuce.com>
> To: <herlinux at hotmail.com>
> Cc: <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 5:18 PM
> Subject: Re: [Herefordshire] Installing DVD-CDrom
>
>
> > Hi Noel,
> >
> > Noel McG. said:
> > > Do you have to mount the > CD manually or is it automatic?
> > >
> > > Dn't know,  mandrake has always found the hardware before and from the
> > > settings that are in control panel/hardware seem to have done so
again.
> >
> > Could you put a cd in the drive and at a terminal window type the
> following:
> >
> > $ mount /mnt/cdrom
> > $ ls -l
> >
> > If the ls command gives some output then the drive and the O/S are
> > behaving properly.  I looks like the automounter isn't
working/configured
> > properly for the drive.  I'll try a long shot (which requires modifying
> > system files) and say change the following in /etc/fstab:
> > Change:
> > /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom auto
> > umask=0,user,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,exec 0 0
> > To:
> > none /mnt/cdrom supermount
> > dev=/dev/hdb,fs=auto,--,umask=0,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,exec 0
0
> > [this should be on one line - make sure it doesn't wrap in your editor]
> >
> > And I suspect a handy reboot to sort it out (not required but something
> > will need restarting and I don't know what!).
> > Thanks
> > Mark
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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