What you want to do is to type 'less /var/log/messages'. Unless, you are
running SuSE then you would use /var/log/boot.msg
That will let you view where the cdrom is by saying something like:
<4> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xff00-0xff07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
<4> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xff08-0xff0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
<4>hda: MAXTOR 6L080J4, ATA DISK drive
<4>hdb: WDC AC22000L, ATA DISK drive
<4>hdc: SAMSUNG DVD-ROM SD-616, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
<4>hdd: PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W1210A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
Here you can see on my system there's two cdrom one is /dev/hdc and the other
is /dev/hdd
You could also use 'grep CD /var/log/messages'.
Watch out it's case sensitive.
On Wednesday 01 May 2002 17:17, you wrote:
> I just installed RH 7.2 on a machine, I needed to add some
> stuff put the CD in and went to mount the CD. The machine
> retorts the following
> mount: dev/cdrom is not a valid block device.
> If I look at /dev I see that cdrom is a link to /dev/hdb
> My fstab file shows the cdrom as follows;
> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
> Did something point wrong?
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