On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 02:26:14PM +0200, Patrizia Canton wrote: > Hi, > I am new to Debian and to Linux, > after installing it, I mounted many times the cdrom > with no problems. Today I tried to install apt > and, when I was requested to select the install source for apt, > I was not able to continue > either giving /dev/cdrom or giving /cdrom. > After that when I tried to mount > mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom > (which is the entry I have in /etc/fstab and > that it worked till this morning) > the prompt is always > mount: /dev/cdrom is not a block device. > What should I do?
Try "ls -l /dev/cdrom" to inspect for further problems: 23:00 $ ls -l /dev/cdrom lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Jul 18 2000 /dev/cdrom -> scd0 23:42 $ ls -l /dev/scd0 brw-rw---- 2 root cdrom 11, 0 Jul 16 2000 /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom is usually a symbolic link to your real cdrom device. If your CD-ROM is the master drive on the second IDE cable, it might be accessible as /dev/hdc. So, I can do either mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /cdrom or mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /cdrom and get the same result. To re-create the link, read "info ln". Rob -- Things are more like they used to be than they are now.
