cd-rom and floppy problems

[korn4266]

I'm running mandrake 9.0 with gnome and LILO bootloader. I get to the desktop and I only have root's home, trash, mandrake online and cd-rom. I have 2 cd-roms and a floppy drive. Only my dvd-rom is on the desktop. I tried right clicking the desktop and adding the others to the desktop but it does nothing. I really need my other 2 drives (burner, and floopy). Can someone help?

[DrFrankenstein]

write a shell script to mount the cdrom drive (check your /etc/fstab file for the location of the device) for example

mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

be sure to put the script in ~/Desktop and make it chmod +x. Now hopefully it worked and all you have to do is click on the file on the desktop and then open a file browser such as konqueror to navigate to /mnt/cdrom and browse the files.

[Naki]

It sounds like you are logging in as root user, that desktop is deliberatly left with fewer items on it. (If the background is red its root) You should only log in as root in order to do administration tasks. If you don't have a regular user account you can make one by selecting Mandrake Control Center -> System -> Users. Also while you are in MCC you can check under Hardware -> Hardware List and/or Mount Points to see if all your drives are detected.

When you are logged in as a regular user you should have a "Removable Media" icon through which you can access your floppy and cdroms.

[jgmcbride]

Enter terminal mode and enter the following.

df This will tell you what is mounted.

Assuming that none of your CDs are mounted and that you want to mount two CD's .

mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
and
mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1

You should now be able to
ls /mnt/cdrom and ls /mnt/cdrom1 to see the contents of the CD that you have placed in each drive.

I don't know if you have a dvd drive though. May be a different directory under /dev.

How to automate this so that it appears every time you login is another task. I am not sure myself.

Don't forget that to remove a CD from the drive you have to unmount them.

eg umount /mnt/cdrom and
umount /mnt/cdrom1

YES that is UMOUNT !!!! Be careful!!!!

[korn4266]

Ok I had to reinstall to get everything working correctly. I also fixed my RAID controller problem thanks.