[LUNI] INstall question.

Steven Lembark lembark at wrkhors.com
Fri Mar 8 17:21:00 CST 2002


-- Richard Reina <Richard at rushlogistics.com>

> I just hate it when one problem reveals to another.

Hey, welcome to computers :-)


># mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
># mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device file
>
> /dev/cdrom does exist and I can mount /dev/fd0, so I really don't know
> what wrong.  Is this something else I've botched during installation?

Try:

    ls -ld /dev/cdrom

this is normally a soft link to some other device. Probably you have
the soft link but it's pointing to the wrong "hard" device file (this
is one of the reasons that devfs exists).


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Steven Lembark                               2930 W. Palmer
Workhorse Computing                       Chicago, IL 60647
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