Mount Confusion

Forum: HD Install
Topic: Mount Confusion
started by: Grey

Posted by Grey on Aug. 20 2005,01:18

I just wanted to say that you guys are definitely better than any customer help line I have ever called. But anyway, I recently did a frugal install on my laptop. It seemed to go fine, and runs fine, but it mounts one of my partitions incorrectly. I have hda1 for windows, hda2 is where my iso is, hda3 for home, opt, mydsl, and hda4 for swap. However it seems to mount my hda2 under /cdrom, instead of, as would make sense, /mnt/hda2. I looked at fstab and mtab, and they were not in agreement on this. In fstab:

/dev/cdrom /mnt/auto/cdrom auto user,noauto,exec,ro 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2 ext2 noauto,users,exec 0 0

however, in mtab:
/dev/hda2 /cdrom ext2 rw 0 0
[there was no mention of my cdrom here]

All of this amounts to me not being able to use my cdrom. I'm not sure if any of the above information is helpful, I'm a little new at this, and any ideas would be appreciated.

Posted by adraker on Aug. 20 2005,08:01

Grey,
Your "Frugal" partition, which is hda2, will appear
as /cdrom, in Emelfm.
That, after all, is what Frugal is about, emulating a
cdrom on a hard disk partition.
Your /dev/cdrom will appear as /mnt/auto/cdrom
in Emelfm.
You need to firstly have a medium with valid data
on it in your cd drive.
After you push it in, mtab is modified.
You then would use the mount.app to mount it.
(It could also be mounted by Right clicking in emelfm.)
Then you can look for the data on the cd in Emelfm,
right hand window is by default at the top of the
file system /.
So go down to mount, double click, then cdrom, double click.
You are actually at /mount/auto/cdrom, and the cd data
should be there.

In addition to this, the boot option "Frugal" lets you mount
and find your Frugal partition read/write as a hda'x'.

Thats the theory of it, unless something has gone wrong along the way.
Hope that helps...