CD access prob

2003-08-14 Thread Richard Lyons
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 b

Re: CD access prob

2003-08-14 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Sunday 10 August 2003 14:00, Richard Lyons wrote: > My CD says >Could not mount device. >The reported error was: >mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device > > fstab entry looks reasonable to me: > > /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0 > > And, if tha

Re: CD access prob

2003-08-12 Thread Andreas Janssen
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

Re: CD access prob

2003-08-10 Thread Sebastian Kapfer
On Sun, 10 Aug 2003 15:00:12 +0200, Richard Lyons wrote: > My CD says >Could not mount device. >The reported error was: >mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device /dev/cdrom is a symlink to what? (Hint: ls -l /dev/cdrom to find out. It might also be interesting to know w