On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 11:39:04PM +0200, Necati DEMiR wrote: > Hi, > i wanted to mount my cdrom, but i saw that there is no hdb or cdrom in > /dev directory, and i decided to create them by using mknod. > and i did the followings; > > #mknod -m 0660 /dev/hdb b 3 64 > #ln -s /dev/hdb /dev/cdrom > > every thing is ok up to now. > then i tried; > > #mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom/ > > but it gave error like this; > > mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device > > How can i solve this problem? > Thanks! > >
Try giving the file system type in your mount command: mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom Also using a symbolic link is unnecessary in this since once you get it working you will surely make an entry in /etc/fstab. Symbolic links, in this, are for making it easier to maintain after a few months when you have forgotten what you did to get it working. HTH -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
