CD-ROM Unmountable!!
Forum: HD Install
Topic: CD-ROM Unmountable!!
started by: kendall14
Posted by kendall14 on April 19 2006,22:51
I installed DSL to a computer I'm working on at school and when I went to mount the cd-rom I relized something. The mounting tool in the bottom right coner is only picking up hda1 and hda5 ( there in no hda2 - hda4 and I checked, it's like that because I sat the porstions at the ends on the disk). It's not picking up the floppy (I think it should be fda1 or something like that) or the CD-Rom drive. I tried go to mnt/ and checking if it atuo mounted it but it didn't. I have the DSL 2.3 version. Is there a way to fix that tool (the one in the lower right) and mount them?
Posted by lovdsl on April 20 2006,05:22
Have you tried opening the file manager and clicking cdrom or floppy then right clicking cdrom or floppy and then clicking mount to see the content? I think dsl auto mounts the cd and floppy when you install..hope this helps..additional partitions may be mounted via the slit by clicking
Posted by kendall14 on April 21 2006,20:12
I tried that and tit worked for the floppy drive but the cd-rom throws a error.| Quote |
| Mount: can't find /mnt/cdrom in /etc/ fstab or /etc/mtab |
That is the error it throws in the bottom.
Posted by lovdsl on April 22 2006,00:52
are you chooseing /mnt or clicking cdrom right clicking and clicking mount...the error is common if you go to /mnt and choose cdrom...
Posted by kendall14 on April 22 2006,16:05
I go to the file manager and try to first right click and mount the cdrom in the root dir but it puts that error in the bottom and same if I go to /mnt and try it on cdrom(which when I try that it geos to mnt/atuo/cdrom but I frigured that to be normal) . 
Posted by kendall14 on April 25 2006,23:35
Does anyone know how to fix this??
Posted by anaconda on April 26 2006,14:12
| Quote |
| Mount: can't find /mnt/cdrom in /etc/ fstab or /etc/mtab |
That means that cdrom isn't in fstab file, so you can mount the cdrom only from terminal and you have to be root.
try in terminal:
| Code Sample |
| sudo su mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom |
Another possibility is that the CDROM-drive is SATA-CDROM, and there is no way to mount SATA devices in DSL2.3 (in 2.1 it is possible)
Posted by bwh1969 on May 03 2006,11:56
I have the same issue with a frugal install. I used to use dsl bootfrom=/hdaX/DSL23.iso (renamed the iso file) so I could use my CDROM but I got tired of needing the CD in to boot from all of the time, so after my GRUB frugal install, I get an error reading after it tries to install my DSL apps from the CDROM (why, I don't know, as I never suggested it look for them there)The error is: sr0 CDROM (IOCTL) ILLEGAL REQUEST.
This pops up a few times and then DSL is up and running; however, with no CDROM access or ability to mount it with a variety of "methods"
Secondly, unlike my failed LILO install which disabled my ability to get into Windows, the GRUB setup menu did not ask where I kept my DSL Apps. But I can get into Windows because it asked me that key question. I just load the APPS manually as I need them... I am running a 200 MMX laptop with 96 MEG, so I am fairly limited and loading extra apps anyway.
Help with the CD would be nice, if there was some simple way of doing this. I like LINUX, yet somewhat hate it due to its DOS like complexity of commands. Yes, I was around for DOS and Win 3.1. Still, LINUX is fast, and it handles memory well and the people who use it are such a great community to "hang out" with on these boards.