cdrom does not exist

[Guest Metal Fanatic]

I just recently installed Mandrake 9.0 and everything went very smooth. When I insert a cd into the cdrom, I can view the contents of the cd in konqueror. But when I try to copy a file or move a file, an error message pops up that says "mnt/cdrom/file or directory does not exist". So I tried the command line by changing to the /mnt/cdrom/ directory and typing ls. The contents of the cd are listed but the error message about the file or directory does not exist shows up. Please help :)

[Steve Scrimpshire]

Maybe it's a permissions problem? Have you tried doing that as root?

[pmpatrick]

Please post your /etc/fstab file. This file sets the permissions for all your partitons and cd drives. Also, do you have supermount enabled?

[SoulSe]

You should not even consider using supermount. Type the following:

# supermount -disable

 

You might have to reboot after that.

[Guest Metal Fanatic]

Here is my /etc/fstab file:

 

/dev/hdb6 / ext3 defaults 1 1

none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0

none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,ro,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0

/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0

/dev/hdb1 /mnt/win_c2 vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0

/dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0

none /proc proc defaults 0 0

/dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0

/dev/hdb5 swap swap defaults 0 0

[Kieth]

I disabled my supermount, but when I wrote supermount -disable, while under su (root), it stated that I had to make the changes directly in the /etc/fstab file. I tried, but I had no idea what to eliminate or change. Therefore I went into the Mandrake Control Center - Mount Points - CD-Rom - Options, and choose 'user' and 'noauto', and deselected 'supermount'. That resolved the problem, and supermount is now disabled.

 

Kieth

[Glitz]

Try:

 

supermount -i disable

 

Then reboot the computer.

 

Glitz.

[Guest ndeb]

Metal Fanatic,

The real culprit is the mandrake configurator which has produced this useless entry in /etc/fstab:

none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,ro,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0

I faced exactly the same problem. Change the word none to /mnt/cdrom and ur problem will go away. Ur problem has nothing to do with supermount.

 

While supermount is buggy as hell, u can still read cds and burn cds with supermount enabled. But as the others have suggested, disabling supermount will make ur life easier. U can disable supermount by running (as root);

supermount -i disable. Once u have done it, there is no need to reboot at all. Just unload the supermount kernel module (as root):

modprobe -vr ide-cd

modprobe -vr cdrom

modprobe -vr floppy

umount /mnt/cdrom

umount /mnt/floppy

modprobe -vr supermount

This will disable supermount. Now reload the cd and floppy modules:

modprobe -v ide-cd

modprobe -v floppy

Now u should be able to access ur removable drives but u have to mount and umount manually.

[Guest Metal Fanatic]

I disabled supermount and voila! It works like its supposed to. :D Thanks for everybody's help.

[SoulSe]

Try:

 

supermount -i disable

 

Then reboot the computer.

 

I forgot the -i - Sorry!