Hello
Richard Lyons (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> I'm feeling perticularly dim today. Having messed up my RH boot while
> setting up Debian (Knoppix) on my desktop box, I was about to shrug
> and say @so what
> - now I'll just have to use the Debian. But one or two bits aren't
> working, and I'm sure I really know how to mend them if I could get my
> brain in gear in the heat...
>
> My CD says
> Could not mount device.
> The reported error was:
> mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device
/dev/cdrom is a symbolic link pointing to the device file for your
CD-ROM. Maybe the link points to the wrong device (for example to an
IDE device while you use ide scsi emulation). To check this, please see
where /dev/cdrom points and do
cat /proc/scsi/scsi
to find out if your CD-ROM uses ide scsi emulation
> fstab entry looks reasonable to me:
>
> /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
The line seems to be okay, as long as /dev/cdrom points to the right
device.
> And, if that is not enough, the CDRW says
> Could not mount device.
> The reported error was:
> mount: only root can mount /dev/scd0 on /cdrw
>
> I've given permissions on /cdrw. What have I forgotten here?
The permissions for the mount point do not matter. Do you have a line
for the device in your fstab? If not, users cannot mount it.
best regards
Andreas Janssen
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