[brluglist] any help if possible

[Douglas Adams]

Okay, I figured it out, well, at least part of it.  I initially didn't 
investigate as far as I should have.  /media/cdrom was pointing to 
/dev/cdrom.  Everything seemed just fine.  But upon checking out /dev/cdrom, 
it was pointing at /dev/hdc.  That's my dvd drive.  So, /media/dvd and 
/media/cdrom were both pointing at the dvd.  Why the dvd doesn't work, I 
don't know, but it is a cheap one that gives me problems in the first place 
anyway,  I'm not too worried about that.  Why Suse decided to suddenly start 
pointing the link to my cd-rom to my dvd-rom, I have no clue and this is 
gonna puzzle me for a long time.

But, the good news is that I pointed everything in the right direction and 
it's working fine.  In a related note, I would suggest against anyone buying 
a RAITE dvd-rom.  It's a cheap piece of trash in my opinion.

Cordially,
Douglas Adams

p.s.  Sorry about filling up your inbox with a conversation between me 
and...........myself.  :-)

p.p.s. Shawn, you have Suse 7.2.  It has a newer version of the kernel and 
all types of other newer things also packaged in with it.

On Thursday 10 January 2002 04:01, you wrote:
> I normally try and figure things out myself, but I've failed to understand
> what's going on in this instance.  I can't mount my cd-rom, nor my dvd-rom.
> I'm running Suse 7.2.  I know the drives are working because Yast2 has no
> problem installing software from the installation disks.  And I know I
> could mount them before, because I've played starcraft through wine, and
> i've installed .rpm's from several cd's before.
>
> When I type mount /media/cdrom or mount /media/dvd (that's where suse puts
> it /mnt is completely empty), I get the message "mount: No medium found". 
> OK, so after looking at fstab and all that nice stuff and not seeing the
> problem, I decided to reinstall, just in case there was something I messed
> up I shouldn't have, because after all, when I first installed, my drives
> were working fine.  Plus it gave me a reason to repartition my hard drive
> like I should have in the first place.  Well, reinstall went great,  until
> of course I tried to mount my drives.  No dice, didn't work.  The symlinks
> all seem to be pointing in the right places, I just don't understand.  I've
> tried running as root.  I've tried it at every run level possible.  Looked
> at my fstab. And a plethora of other things Pepe.
>
> If anyone can shine any type of light on my situation, even if it's one of
> those cheap lights that come on keychains, I'd appreciate it.  Thanks for
> the help ahead of time.
>
> P.S.  I enjoyed the meeting at Brewbacher's.  And thanks everyone for the
> reply to my last e-mail.
>
>
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