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<P>Aloha and Happy Halloween,</P>
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<P> I have just installed RH 7.2 on a box that I am turning into a
router. For some reason the cdrom won't mount (I want to have access
to some linux documentation files while building the router...) The
mount process errors out with the following messages:
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<P><FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">[root@router dev]# mount /dev/cdrom</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid
block device</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">[root@router dev]# ls -la /dev/cdrom</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root
8 Oct 31 20:21 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdc</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">[root@router dev]# ls -la /dev/hdc</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">brw-rw---- 1 root root
22, 0 Aug 30 10:30 /dev/hdc</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">[root@router dev]# mount -t iso9660
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">mount: /dev/hdc is not a valid block
device</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">*********************************************************************************</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">My /etc/fstab file looks like this:
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<P><FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">LABEL=/ /
ext3 defaults 1 1</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">LABEL=/boot /boot
ext3 defaults 1 2</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">none /dev/pts
devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">LABEL=/home /home
ext3 defaults 1 2</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">none /proc
proc defaults 0 0</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">none /dev/shm
tmpfs defaults 0 0</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">LABEL=/tmp /tmp
ext3 defaults 1 2</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">LABEL=/usr /usr
ext3 defaults 1 2</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">LABEL=/var /var
ext3 defaults 1 2</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">/dev/hda7 swap
swap defaults 0 0</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0</FONT></P>
<P><FONT FACE="Courier, monospace">*********************************************************************************</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT FACE="Times, serif"> OK, I'm stumped now. I have tried to
mount /dev/hdb also and have not had any "luck." Any ideas
would be appreciated</FONT>.</P>
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<P>Mahalos in advance,</P>
<P>Ben
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