Sorry about that Paul. That is twicw you cought me in stupid mistakes. I
failed to edit the line after I copied it. Understandable if you are not
with it and type 10 wpm. The line should have read.
Added line for cd rw
/mnt/rwcdrom /mnt/rwcdrom supermount fs=iso9660,
dev=/dev/rwcdrom 00
Thanks
Frank
Paul M Foster wrote:
>
> On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 05:48:32PM -0400, Frank Roberts wrote:
>
> > In my poretual attempts to acquire the latest Mandrake - Mandrake 8.0 I
> > moved my burner from my home machine into the new office machine.
> >
> > After configuring /etc/fstab to accept the additional settings by the
> > addition of the following line:
> >
> > Line for original installed cd reader
> > /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660, dev=/dev/cdrom
> > 00
> >
> > Added line for cd rw
> > /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660, dev=/dev/cdrom
> > 00
> >
>
> Your second line is identical to the first, and so is unneeded.
> /dev/cdrom can only point to one of them. In addition, at least for a
> RH6.2 fstab, the first item on the line must be something in the /dev
> directory, the second item is the mount point. (Your other parameters
> look a little odd as well.) In addition, since both CDs could be in use
> at the same time, you need different mount points for them.
>
> In any case, I think the lines should start out something like:
>
> /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom1
> /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom2
>
> > I get an error message on boot that mount point does not exist.
> >
>
> Did you check ls -l /mnt/cdrom ?
>
> > Could some one please point me in the direction of how does one creat a
> > moint point.
> >
>
> A mount point is just a directory. Use the mkdir command. If you want to
> symlink something to an existing directory or file:
>
> ln -s original-file-or-dir name-of-new-link
>
> HTH,
>
> Paul
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