[olug] mounting my cd-rom

[Andrew Embury]

Is it on the same IDE channel as your old CDROM?  Is it jumpered the
same?  /dev/cdrom is likely a symlink to another device, so if your cdrom
moved, you will want to update it accordingly.



On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, mesc wrote:

> I get this error message when trying to mount my cd-rom with the mount
> /mnt/cdrom command>>
> mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device......I had a regular
> cd-rom on my computer but I just installed a cd-rw.Linux sees it at
> bootup and the line corresponing to the cd-rom in /etc/fstab worked for
> my old cd-rom so I'm assuming /etc/fstab  is ok.Any ideas what may be
> wrong?
> 
>                 Thank you,Gary Martin
> 
> 
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