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ok, so i was origionally running mandriva 2008 spring, and all was good, until i tried to update, i used i586 update on a i686 hardware configuration (i know i was hoping it would work) i wanted to use the new firefox... it didnt work, im now locked out of my harddrive, and i can only access the terminal, and the restore command freezes the computer....so i decided to put dsl on my other harddrive and attempt to access the harddrive from it with no sucess, i cant see my other hard drive let alone access it, i just need to get a few files off it....i ran mandriva from the cd, and i can view the folders but i cant transfer them for some reason.... it has a lock ont he foler icon... can you help me either mount my cdrom so i can burn a new OS and try that out... and i would like to mount my other harddrive and attempt to move the files onto this harddrive so all will be good...

so my end query is, can you help me moun t my drives on my computer so i can have full access on the computer... ive tried this with minnimal success

# mount -t iso9660 cdda /dev/cdrom
mount: special device cdda does not exist

im just not to familiar with dsl, just mandriva and knoppix...

any help would be apprecated

If I understand correctly, you managed to boot dsl from your other hd - what errors do you get when you try to access the mandriva hd?

You don't need to mount your cdrom to burn a new iso - cdrecord will work directly from dsl.

Quote (Juanito @ Dec. 06 2008,05:37)

i cant view my other hd thats my problem, i guess i have to manually mount it so i can view the contents?

what is cdrecord, this dsl came with cdw 0.2.3, i believe its an older version of dsl, had this cd for long time got it from friend...

cdrecord has always been there. It is the commandline tool which is the actual heart of many gaphical CD burning tools.

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.i ran mandriva from the cd, and i can view the folders but i cant transfer them for some reason.... it has a lock ont he foler icon

That sounds like a permissions issue. Try logging in as root to access the files.

In DSL, your drives should automatically be found and put in /etc/fstab if DSL recognizes them. If you look at the /etc/fstab file (a text file), you will see the names of the devices and the mountpoints. In this case the mount command needs only one of those names to work, mount /dev/hda2, for example.

ok how do i use cdrecord?

i tried as root and it said permission denied

and i found fstab it says:

/dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/auto/floppy vfat defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=022 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/auto/cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda5 /mnt/hda5 auto noauto,users,exec 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hdb5 none swap defaults 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hdb6 /mnt/hdb6 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0

so my second hd is hdb1...right? how do i then find it? is it under /mnt? or another folder? or do i have to access it through the terminal?

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