[H-GEN] Unkown Device

Sandra Milne silne at optushome.com.au
Sun Mar 31 22:21:04 EST 2002


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have a look in the /dev directory and make sure that /dev/cdrom is a link 
to the actual device. alternatively, u could try changing fstab settings so 
they're referencing /dev/cdrom and not /Dev/cdrom (linux is case sensitive)

Sandra.

At 13:01 1/04/2002 +1000, you wrote:
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>
>G'Day,
>         Could some body please help me. I installed Red Hat 7.2 today 
> from Cd's,
>however when I click on the CD icon I get the following message - " mount
>/Dev/cdrom: unknown device.
>My fstab says the folowing -
>
>LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
>LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
>none                    /Dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
>none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
>none                    /Dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
>/Dev/hdc3               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
>/Dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro
>0 0
>/Dev/cdrom1             /mnt/cdrom1             iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro
>0 0
>/Dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto    noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0
>
>Thankyou,
>Rodney.
>
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