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Calum:
Druaga,

try reading This article. it explained all this stuff to me when i was confused about it, so maybe it'll help you too.
There is another topic somewhere in the UNIX forum about fstab too, which has some stuff in it of relevance, try doing a search for it...
good luck with yr cdrom.

Centurian:
Hey,

 
quote:Originally posted by jtpenrod:
I can't be sure here, but I seem to be seeing a lot of mistakes being made here. With my Mandrake and Red Hat systems, the way I mount CDs (or floppies for that matter) is to su to root, then:

# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt   To later unmount the CD:
# umount /mnt

That whitespace absolutely needs to be in there as BASH uses whitespace as a delimiter. Also, you can't mount anything unless you give it a mount point. Otherwise, all you get is errors. Any way, that's how I handle these operations in Linux: from the command line.

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In Mandrake since your CDROM has been predefined in your fstab file it isn't necessary to give the device. The device has already been connected to /mnt/cdrom. So all that is required is
mount /mnt/cdrom
I can't say if that is true or not for other versions of Linux but it works fine for Mandrake 8.1

Master of Reality:
ya, thanks,

i was kinda screwed up becaue i tried mounting a win (Vfat) HD, that BIOS isnt detecting but linux did, and nothing happened.

But all the other drives work fine using those techniques and i got the update thing to set-up my BIOS properly.

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