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mandrake 10 - cd-rom not reading data

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Nab

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I just installed mandrake 10 and I need to put in the first cd to set up network stuff but both my cd-roms won't detect anything that i put in there. What do i do? Thanks in advance.


edit: on Mandrake 9.1 the cd-roms were working fine. After I upgraded they messed up.
 
Not sure what you mean.

describe what your trying to do....

If you want some details to help out here is some info.

In Unix-style OSes everything is a file, hardware resources are no exception. On your computer you have some special files called device files. These reside in the /dev/ directory and represent different things. For instance /dev/zero is a file of infinate zeros, /dev/urandom is a file of infinate random information. /dev/null is a black hole, anything you put in /dev/null will be gone forever.

Well you have files that represent your IDE devices, usually harddrives and cdroms, but can be zip drives or other things that are connected to the IDE controllers.. These are /dev/hd## files. /dev/hda = primary master, /dev/hdb = primary slave, /dev/hdc = secondary master, /dev/hdd = secondary slave.

Usually cdrom drives are detected at install and have symbolic links (like a shortcut) from /dev/cdrom to the /dev/hd# file that they are represented by. But sometimes it doesn't work out that way perfectly.

In order to access a file you have "mount" it. This makes a filing system (wiether it be on a harddrive, cdrom, zip, floppy, or network share) a part of your overall directory system.

Usually the command would go like this:
mount /dev/hdc /cdrom

Some distros make a /cdrom directory or a /mnt/cdrom directory or just /mnt for you to use, but any empty directory can be used to mount a filing system to.

Mandrake uses automount system to try to automate it.

Either way the default mount points are controlled by the /etc/fstab configuration file. That file is how the OS knows which drive is which and the details on how and when to mount files.

It's hard to say which thing isn't working for you. I am not that familar with Mandrake's specific idosicrosies. However I would try to login as root and try to automount the cdrom that way.

(although as a rule you don't use Root unless you realy realy have to. For instance if you ment to type "rm -rf ./*" clear out a directory and you typed out "rm -rf /" instead, you wipe out your entire OS, and their is NO way to recover from that. also their is security issues.)

If logging in as root doesn't help, then manually mount the device with the mount command should do it.
 
this is what my /dev/ directory looks like.....

http://www.myimgs.com/data/HopeSlayer/snapshot1.jpg



it doesn't seem that i have any of the hd## that you were talking about.......is that a problem?


okay what I did was reinstall mandrake 10 to see if my installation was a problem and i made something worse. Now my cdrom and cdrom2 icons are gone from my desktop, and I don't know how to get to them through terminal 😱.
 
Ya you do. Six down on the first row, is hda. That represents your primary master IDE device.

/dev/hda = primary master IDE device, and if that device is a harddrive then /dev/hda1 is the first partition on that harddrive.

maybe this can help. Here is a basic introduction on how linux works, this can help with the lingo and show you a bit about the command line.

As for the cdrom icon, it's fixable, so don't worry.

maybe try out the gui configuration tools to help you out. Mandrake's tool is the harddrake and should be accessable thru your control center in your start menu.

It's a bit hard going right when you start off, but once you get familar with the conventions and stuff it will get easier.
 
where is the cd rom icon that i can drag out onto the desktop so that if i double click on it, it shows the content in the cd-rom drive?
 
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