No Optical Drives under RH 7.2

[juanito]

I just upgraded to RH 7.2, from 6.2; dual booting with Win 98, using Mr Booter. I have a DVD and a CDRW drive. Both worked OK under 6.2, but not with 7.2. Get error message saying they can not be mounted. I have checked everything I can think of, but suspect I may just have amental block after working on it so long. The drives still work under Win Doze and I used one of them to do the upgrade.

Help!

Juanito

[OOPS!]

Hi,

First, you need to have media in the drives to mount them. Assuming you do, you probably don't have permission as a user to use them. Try adding the user to the CDROM R-W group and the DVD group. That generally fixes it for me.

Guess I should have asked first, can you mount them as root?

OOPS!

[juanito]

Thanx for the reply. No, can't mount as root, either.

Juanito

[OOPS!]

OK,

Well, I guess that I would check to see if they exist in /mnt, assuming they do, I'd then check to see if the symlinks are right. Then I'd take a look at fstab to see if it is correct. http://www.humbug.org.au/talks/fstab/fstab.html
Read that to learn about fstab. If that don't help, I'm out of ideas, sorry.

Did you do the install as an up-grade, or a clean install? Sometimes going the up-grade route causes trouble. Perhaps something borked during the install? I'm sure that if they were supported under 6.2 they should work under 7.x Just some random thoughts.

OOPS!

[juanito]

Thanx, Oops. Will checkout the humbug site.

It was a clean install -- twice, with an attempted Mandrake install, in between. I don't like upgrades, plus I had a crash, so had nothing to loose. After I did the RH 7.2, the first time, I had no opticals, either, and a friend said that Manny was better and he was sure it would find the opticals. Never got it to work, at all, so formatted the HD and reinstalled RH. Been "playing" with Linux for 5 years or so, hoping to eventualy get totally away from Redmond, but haven't had this problem, before.

Juan

[Statica]

Are you using anything at boot time to automatically mount your CDs? like AMD or autofs? Try turning them off. Are you sure of the mount pointof your drives?

[juanito]

Went to the Humbug site and downloaded the article about fstab. Edited my fstab file to match theirs (except for the drive letters). Have also changed mountpoints, trying every possible combination. No AMD or autofs. At times have had as many as four CD icons, on the desktop, but nothing works. I do manage to get different error messages, at times ;-{

To add insult to injury, I bought a CD of Linux Games, for my 10 year old daughter (also a Linux user), for a "stocking stuffer" and now she is bugging me to get it installed. May have to try installing on one of the older computers I have lying around, just to get to the Games, for her.

[juanito]

Discovered a copy of RH 7.1 laying around and tried it (not even sure why). It found the opticals without any problem. But 7.2 still will not. Any ideas why?

Juanito