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>I am a Linux "Newbie" and I need some help getting my Backpack cdrom =
>mounted running Red Hat 6.0. The installation goes fine, no problems, =
>but when I try to mount the cdrom after the system reboots I get the =
>msg: you must specify filesystem.=20
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>So I type:
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>mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
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>and I get the msg: the cdrom does not exist.
>
>Then, I go into /etc/fstab and change the line:
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>/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 00
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>to=20
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>/dev/bpcd /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 00
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>then at the command line I type:
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>mount /dev/bpcd /mnt/cdrom
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>and I get this msg:
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>you must specify file system
>
>so I type:
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>mount -t /dev/bpcd /mnt/cdrom
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>and I get this msg:
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>the kernel does not recognize /dev/bpcd ad a block device(maybe 'insmod =
>driver'?)
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated!
When your system boots, what does Linux report it as? In my case it is
/dev/hdd. You then want to create a symbolic link from that device:
ln -s /dev/hdd /dev/cdrom
Then you want /etc/fstab to contain:
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 noauto,user,ro 0 0
Notice that it is "0 0" not "00". Change the "/cdrom" to wherever
you want your mount point to be.
You should then be able to do a "mount /cdrom" as root or as a user.
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