Mandrake 7.2 help needed!

[Monel Funkawitz]

{Problem Fixed}
{Turns out it was the bad path that Batti was talking about. Thanks again Batti! 😀}


I am now running my first Linux system, dual booting with Windows. I have Windows on C and Linux on D drive. Grub is the bootloader. I am running KDE. Everything is installed, and running fine. (I was just watching my tuner on it as a matter of fact. 😀 I am pretty damn proud of that so far. My last attempts with Linux were nightmares)

Well, I have a prob. I can't access any of my drives. When I load up Konquest, and try to get to my CD-ROM (or click on the CD-Rom shortcut on the desktop) I get "Unable to access drive. No rights are available to this location." The reason why I need to get to the CD-Rom is I am installing the network in HardDrake, and it keeps asking for "CDROM1" after I input my ISP info. Anyone have any ideas? 😕

I am about at witts end. Everything else seems to be working great. I am really starting to love Mandrake, except for this little hitch.

 

[KidViciou$]

i dont know the exact process of mounting devices, but what i did was select supermount during the install. that mounts everything automatically.

 

[Monel Funkawitz]

How in the hell did you do that? ~Scratches head~

I never saw that anywhere in the install... Of course I did full install instead of custom though.

I think that might have something to do with it, because A drive is unmounted too. How to I hump it?

 

[Monel Funkawitz]

Wow.. wayyy past my bedtime. I gotta crash and get up early for work tomorrow.

TIA to everyone for help.

 

[KidViciou$]

well in my stubborness 🙂P), i REFUSE to do a standard install for the most part. you can select supermount when you specify the security level, unfortuantely, oyu cant have a high security level with supermount, only medium. i did select server type installation though, but im not too sure if it matters

as for mounting, like i said, i dont know the actual process. try the how to under documentation 🙂

 

[KidViciou$]

if you installed the how-tos, clicking on this link "should" work

Automount

nope, doesnt work

file:/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/HTML/en/mini/Automount-1.html#ss1.2

 

[Batti]

Monel, is the CDROM a SCSI device or a CD Burner? There's info hereabout a bad link that gets created in some instances.

I installed with a SCSI CD (no burner) and clicking the CDROM icon on the desktop yields that same error if I don't have a CD in the drive...😱 could it be that simple?

Edit: I picked the same installation type as you, and supermount was the default. Open a terminal, and type "mount" to see what's mounted. I see /mnt/cdrom on /mnt/cdrom type supermount (rw,fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom)