On 24 Dec 2002, Thomas A. Hulslander wrote: > > > I built this PC a week ago and installed Red Hat 8. All was well except > for the floppy drive which I didn't care too much about to begin with. > > Yesterday I installed a CDR and the instructions said that it had to be > in the Secondary channel with the CD-ROM as its slave. That's when I > realized that I had set up the HD originally in the secondary channel. > > I moved HD to primary channel and installed CDR in secondary with CD-ROM > as its slave. > > Now I cannot access CD-ROM or CDR. When I try I am getting message that > they do not exist in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab. If the answer is adding > these entries into fstab and mtab, how in the world do I do that? > > I do have webmin installed if it helps to resolve this issue. > > I have read all morning and am finding no answers. > > I thank you in advance for any help you can offer.
You simply open up /etc/fstab in a text editor (vi, pico...whatever), add an appropriate entry for the each drive, save, and voila!!! FWIW, here is an example: /dev/cdrw /mnt/cdrw iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 This takes into account symlinks in /dev, like so: lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 8 Oct 29 00:00 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdd lrwxrwxr-x 1 root root 9 Jan 14 2002 /dev/cdrw -> /dev/hdc Since you've got the CDR as the secondary master, and the CDROM as the secondary slave, secondary master is usually referred to, by the system, as /dev/hdc, and the slave as /dev/hdd (just like your primary master and slave are /dev/hda and /dev/hdb, respectively). If you want, in the /etc/fstab example above, you could just have /dev/hdc and /dev/hdd in place of /dev/cdrw and /dev/cdrom. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org:2000 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
