Re: Cdrom in Debian testing/unstable

From: David Goodenough (david.goodenough_at_btconnect.com)
Date: 09/27/04

  • Next message: LiuChang: "Re: mozilla-thunderbird and clamav"
    To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
    Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 15:06:56 +0100
    
    

    On Monday 27 September 2004 14:48, H. S. wrote:
    > Apparently, _edgar_, on 09/27/04 07:53,typed:
    > > Hello,
    > > I've installed on a laptop and on few desktops Debian with a Sarge
    > > netinstall cd and then upgraded to unstable.
    > > I guess I missed something lately but how do I mount the cdrom? When I
    > > put an audio cd in the laptop it is recognized in the cd player, but
    > > when I want to mount a cd with programs I cannot mount the cdrom. It
    > > says it's not in fstab, but it is. There's no cdrom0 in /media. After
    > > some workaround I did it, but I don't think it was meant to be used that
    > > way. So how does it work?
    >
    > The cdrom has always been one of those non-obvious things to me
    > immediately after installation. Just after you are done with
    > installation there are no entried in /etc/fstab for the CD-ROM. You have
    > to actually make the entry that mounts /dev/cdrom or /dev/hdc or
    > /dev/scd0 or whatever device you have as a CD-ROM. IIRC, a few months
    > ago someone justified this for the sake of security. I have forgotten
    > what was the reason.
    >
    > In any case, you are right, you have to yourself make the mount points.
    > Moreover, the cdrom mount points are not even in /media. They are in
    > /cdrom, /cdrom/cdrom0 and /cdrom/cdrom1 or something like this. What I
    > have done is left the CD-ROM in /cdrom and linked that mount point to
    > /dev/hdc and made new directory /media/cdrw and linked that to the my
    > writer /dev/hdd and put the corresponding mount points in /etc/fstab and
    > all works well.
    The mount points are wherever you want them to be, and the current
    FSB I think says /media is the right place. But if you want them under
    your home directory you can do that to. Certainly with the new installer
    the defaults are in /media, and in my case it worked out of the box.

    David
    >
    > BTW, which Laptop did you install Debian on?
    >
    > ->HS

    -- 
    To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org 
    with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
    

  • Next message: LiuChang: "Re: mozilla-thunderbird and clamav"

    Relevant Pages

    • Re: Fail to install MATLAB 2007a on CentOS 5
      ... unmount the cdrom. ... Then mount the cdrom and ... proceed with the installation as written in the matlab ... MATLAB 2007a on CentOS 5. ...
      (comp.soft-sys.matlab)
    • Re: Fail to install MATLAB 2007a on CentOS 5
      ... unmount the cdrom. ... Then mount the cdrom and ... proceed with the installation as written in the matlab ... MATLAB 2007a on CentOS 5. ...
      (comp.soft-sys.matlab)
    • Re: discover not finding CDROM
      ... Okay, honestly, I am not at all sure about these cdrom? ... Just wanted to make sure mount points exist and are correct. ... I would anticipate that 'discover' would do this ... manually after installation of Sarge. ...
      (Debian-User)
    • Re: discover not finding CDROM
      ... > Okay, honestly, I am not at all sure about these cdrom? ... > Just wanted to make sure mount points exist and are correct. ... >>were part of the Gnome or otherwise installation. ... >>the CD's upon insertion although apparently not installed. ...
      (Debian-User)
    • missing /media/cdrom0
      ... I recently installed debian testing on my laptop, and I had some trouble ... with my cdrom. ... Now at least it seems that I can mount it, ...
      (Debian-User)