[CLUE-Talk] Newbie looking for Linux (Mandrake?) help

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I think you might have a problem with your fstab entry. Mine
looks like:

  /dev/cdrom  /mnt/cdrom  iso9660  noauto,owner,ro 0 0

which is equivalent to:

  /dev/hdd  /mnt/cdrom  iso9660  noauto,owner,ro 0 0

since /dev/cdrom is a link to /dev/hdd

It looks like you are not specifying the file system
type as iso9660. I don't know that you need the dev=...
near the end of the line.

You might want to adjust your fstab line to read:

  /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,noauto,exec,ro 0 0

You do not need to reboot. After making this change, you
should be able to mount the CDROM with:

  mount /mnt/cdrom
or
  mount /dev/hdc

You can also unmount with either of the following:

  umount /mnt/cdrom
or
  umount /dev/hdc

Note the spelling umount not unmount!

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On Tue, 26 Jun 2001 01:31:58 +0000
Jim Hodgers <alfiesty at alfiesty.com> wrote:

> The CDROM plot thickens:
> Thanks to  Jeffery Cann <jccann at home.com>, I changed my /etc/fstab line to
> 
> /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto user,noauto,exec,ro,dev=/dev/hdc 0 0
> 
> Not knowing how to make the fstab reread, I rebooted (hey I am used to 
> rebooting windows 2-5 times daily, mebbe cause I'm a crappy VB programmer) 
> and tried CDPlayer, it played one CD! When I ejected and put another in it 
> would not recognize it(kept saying ejected). It also gave the message that 
> "hdc was not a block device" when I tried to mount a CDRom. I found out that 
> another reboot and one more CD would play, but nothing would get me a mounted 
> CDRom.
> 
> As to Kylix or Omnis Studio. look at Janus Software's Phoenix Basic.
> 
> Jim (still at a loss) Hodgers
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