Good day Kevin. Have you tried mounting your /dev/dvd? Can you tell us what /dev/cdrom and /dev/dvd are pointing to? They are simbolic links, pointing to something like /dev/hd* or so. Can you mount your /dev/cdrecord? Ali. On Sunday 01 December 2002 13:42, Kevin McLauchlan wrote:
G'day all.
I just backed up my /home and other interesting directories on 8.0, tested by retrieving files and directories from the CD and opening them, and then installed 8.1Pro from DVD. It appeared to go smoothly. Everything detected; no showstoppers.
I then ran YOU several times, until it stopped asking for additional passes, and I shut down gracefully and restarted.
On my primary IDE, have two 40G hard drives. On my secondary IDE, I have a PlexWriter CD-R/RW, and a Pioneer DVD (model 116 with current firmware).
I can't seem to mount the CD. Here are my results (among many others...)
linux:~ # mount /media/cdrom /dev/cdrom: Input/output error mount: you must specify the filesystem type linux:~ # (really? wasn't true in 8.0...)
linux:~ # mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom, or too many mounted file systems (could this be the IDE device where you in fact use ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?) linux:~ # (well, no it isn't, because none of those special devices exist)
Here's what I get if I try to "Change source of installation" in YaST: "Error Unable to create installation source from URL 'CD:///'. ERROR(Media:invalid filesystem)"
Here is my fstab: /dev/hda2 / reiserfs defaults 1 1 /dev/hdb3 /home reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb2 /var reiserfs defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb1 swap swap pri=42 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs noauto 0 0 /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0
To my naive and untrained eye, I see a device /dev/cdrom which is supposed to get mountpoint /media/cdrom. Yes, I have also tried to mount the "cdrecorder", with similar results. It doesn't matter if I have a SuSE CD in either/both drives, or one of my backup CDs in either/both.
Furthermore, if I view the directory structure, there is indeed a directory called /media/cdrom. Also, if I look at the Hardware Info, in YaST, the PlexWriter is listed a couple of times, though the DVD drive doesn't seem to appear.
So...
a) what am I doing wrong b) how do I fix it c) why is this different from 8.0, which never gave me this particular grief?
Thank you for your time,
/kevin