[olug] mounting my cd-rom

[Eric Penne]

If the CDRW is detected as a CDRW it will show up as sr0 or scd0 or
something like that using generic scsi emulation.  /dev/cdrom is just a
link.  


--- Andrew Embury <drazak at materiamagica.com> wrote:
> Is it on the same IDE channel as your old CDROM?  Is it jumpered the
> same?  /dev/cdrom is likely a symlink to another device, so if your
> cdrom
> moved, you will want to update it accordingly.
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, mesc wrote:
> 
> > I get this error message when trying to mount my cd-rom with the
> mount
> > /mnt/cdrom command>>
> > mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device......I had a regular
> > cd-rom on my computer but I just installed a cd-rw.Linux sees it at
> > bootup and the line corresponing to the cd-rom in /etc/fstab worked
> for
> > my old cd-rom so I'm assuming /etc/fstab  is ok.Any ideas what may
> be
> > wrong?
> > 
> >                 Thank you,Gary Martin
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >
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