[olug] Can't mount CD

[Vincent]

Is it a re-writable CD?  Many older CD-ROMS can't read re-writables.  I believe the required buzzword feature is "multi-read".
I just ran across this problem again a few hours ago...

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <thehaas at binary.net>
To: <olug at olug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 9:09 PM
Subject: [olug] Can't mount CD


> I inherited an old machine from work -- P-150 w/ 128MB, 2 3.5GB EIDE HD,
> a EIDE CD-ROM, and a SCSI tape drive.
> 
> When I boot, it recognizes that the CD is there, but I can't mount a CD
> with it.  I burned CD 1 of the Debian install set, and successfully
> mounted it on the machine I burned it from. But the old maching boot
> that, so I booted with Tom's Boot Disk but couldn't mount the Debian CD.
> I then swapped out another CD-ROM (one that I know works) and the same
> thing.  I then booted up with the Debian floppies, but it couldn't mount
> the CD either.
> 
> Any ideas on what could be wrong? 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Mike Hostetler          
> thehaas at binary.net 
> http://www.binary.net/thehaas 
> 
> The test is, sometimes there's no place to pull over - sometimes you   
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> -- John Irving,  "A Widow for One Year"      
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