Mandrake and mounting drives

[DavLucMac]

hey you all, I just installed mandrake 8.0 on the last 5 gigs of my 30 gig hard drive. wanna become a user of this bad boy... but something kinda big got in my way I think. when I booted up for the first time, no Cdroms were mounted. talked my my linux buddy, he said you have to mount them... tried that... didn't work. harddrake does not recognize either of my cdroms vendors. i.e. the two drives I got on the "hot deals" forums (lite-on 12x cdrw and delta 16x dvd) are not supported by Mandrake. BAH.

you unix/linux junkies have anything to suggest. I really don't know my way around the OS yet.. just beginning, but I think it looks cool has hell, runs nice and fast... and is gonna be great to set up a server someday. help me out if you can! =)

davlucmac

 

[thornc]

?? weird ??

What can't you mount ??

To which IDE channel are the CD/DVD-ROM attached??

It goes like this:
IDE Primary Master - hda
IDE Primary Slave - hdb
IDE Secondary Master - hdc
IDE Secondary Slave - Hdd

If the CD/DVDs that you are using have a filesystem that your linux recognizes
you can mount it but typing something like on a command line window...

mount -t auto /dev/hd?? /mnt/cdrom

provided that the directory "/mnt/cdrom" exists after you type the command
and no errors occour you should be able to access the contents of the media...

Just keep us posted....

 

[DavLucMac]

<<mount -t auto /dev/hd?? /mnt/cdrom

provided that the directory &quot;/mnt/cdrom&quot; exists after you type the command
and no errors occour you should be able to access the contents of the media...

Just keep us posted....>>

did just that in the console... came out with this error:

&quot;/dev/hda: input/output error
mount: you must specify the filesystem type&quot;

????

I of course have no idea what is going on... going to check the online documentation... already checked the helpers in Mandrake... not much help.

 

[thornc]

?? /dev/hda ?? are you installing your CD on the primary master???

Try something like:
mount -t iso9660 /dev/hda1 /mnt/cdrom

or &quot;/dev/cdrom&quot; in place of the &quot;/dev/hda1&quot; which usually is a symbollic link
to the cdrom device....

Another thing try this with a CD-ROM inserted...not a DVD-ROM...

keep us posted...

 

[Maverick]

<< hey you all, I just installed mandrake 8.0 on the last 5 gigs of my 30 gig hard drive. >>



I really don't know a whole lot about Linux, but I remember someone once saying you need to put your Linux boot partition somewhere within the first 7 gigs of your HD. I guess if you got it to install and boot its not a big deal, just thought I'd let you know.