hi ya scarletdown
On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Scarletdown wrote: > The DVD drive did have a DVD in it. However, for some strange reason, > the system is trying to mount the CD-RW drive instead of the DVD drive. > What do I need to change so the system sees the CD-RW drive as > /dev/cdrom and the DVD drive as /dev/dvd instead of CD-RW as /dev/dvd > and DVD as /dev/cdrom1? if your cdrom is on /dev/hdc and your dvd is on /dev/hdd cd /dev rm -f /dev/cdrom /dev/dvd ln -s ./hdc cdrom ln -s ./hdd dvd ln -s ./scd0 cdrw ln -s ./sr1 dvdrw if you dont know which drive is connected to what, look at the bios during boot up > Here's something weird that I just now discovered... > > The DVD drive is being seen as /dev/sr1 instead of /dev/dvd. So doing a > mount /dev/sr1 /dvd -t udf, I was able to mount the drive. Then I > changed mplayer to look to /dev/sr1 as the DVD device, and it worked. yup ... if it like sr1 instead > >>/dev/hda1 /mnt/sunblossom/winsys vfat ro,users,exec,umask=000 0 0 > >>/dev/hda5 /mnt/sunblossom/win-native vfat ro,users,exec,umask=000 0 0 > >>/dev/hda6 /mnt/sunblossom/workspace vfat users,exec,umask=000 0 0 > >>/dev/hda7 /mnt/sunblossom/media vfat users,exec,umask=000 0 0 > > > > > > i think you want no-exec on the windoze partitons.. > > you dont want to be running linux apps sitting on windoze boxes ?? > > mask seems whacky too ... making everthing on windoze 777 as far > > as linux is concerned... > > I'm keeping them that way for the time being because I plan on trying > out WINE soon, so they need to be executable (if I'm understanding the > exec property correctly.) cracker heaven if they find your windoze box c ya alvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]