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Master of Reality:

quote:Originally posted by Calum:
so what you want to do is mount the DVD drive?
in that case you need to edit your /etc/fstab file to make sure your system knows firstly where the DVD drive is (in /dev/something) and secondly where you want it mounted. Actually you don't need to do that, but it'll save you typing it all in every time you want to mount the drive. Once you have put it into yr /etc/fstab, you can just type "mount /whereveritis/dvdrom", and linux will look in fstab to find out the other details.

if all your other drives are set to mount to /mnt/floppy and /mnt/cdrom et cetera, you will probably want to make the dvd drive go to /mnt/dvdrom for clarity's sake. (i prefer my drives to be /floppy and /dvdrom et cetera) now you will need to mkdir /mnt/dvdrom and then edit your /etc/fstab accordingly. Now, first of course, you will have to find out what your dvdrom is called in /dev

hope that is a start, maybe somebody else can give you more specific info...

[ April 25, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]
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no, linux cant do anything with my DVD drive, because it doesnt have any drivers that will work with it, It cant mount something that it cant run.
And my cdroms dont show up in /dev/ for some reason.

[ April 25, 2002: Message edited by: Master of Reality ]

Calum:
well in that case you will need to get drivers, surely, did you search on Google using yr model number from yr DVD drive? i am sure somebody else must have got this working...
also, if the links are on the desktop, where did they come from? they must have been detected at some point, which makes me think they must be somewhere in /dev? of course all this is just a guess...

Master of Reality:

quote:Originally posted by Calum:
well in that case you will need to get drivers, surely, did you search on Google using yr model number from yr DVD drive? i am sure somebody else must have got this working...
also, if the links are on the desktop, where did they come from? they must have been detected at some point, which makes me think they must be somewhere in /dev? of course all this is just a guess...
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i just changed all my hardware (except hard drives) so they were my previous drives.
I did search on google, found powerDVDs site, they say it works fine with linux, so i e-mailed them about it.

Calum:
hmmm, well as always i will be interested in the outcome, only sorry i couldn't help more...

Master of Reality:
reply from cyberlink:
PowerDVD Linux is not bundled with any distribution. We never release it to
the general public, and to be frank, this project is stopped for the time being.
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those bastards

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