Many thanks - yes it was as simple as loading the (presumably) generic cdrom module.
I was fooled only (honest!) because neither of my previous RH installations had required me to do this.
I'll now edit something like /etc/modules.conf to make sure this module is loaded every time & all will be well.
BTW isn't it just a little bit lame that an installation which can detect a CDROM and install from it can't then set the configuration up so that it's subsequently known about!
That was, of course, just a little whinge to make myself feel better about having missed something so obvious :o)
Regards
Andrew Wallis
-----Original Message----- From: Chris Allen [mailto:chris@cjx.com] Sent: 15 March 2002 10:30 To: Andrew Wallis Cc: Alug Subject: Re: [Alug] Why won't RH 7.2 mount my CD?
On Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 08:37:03AM -0000, Andrew Wallis wrote:
Hi! I'm another newbie (to ALUG not Linux) and here I go starting with a plea for help!
[root@vulpes]# mount /mnt/cdrom mount: /dev/cdrom: unknown device
This means that the kernel doesn't know what to do with the device. Probably you need to load a module, but I don't know which one for a scsi CDROM. You might find that
modprobe cdrom
will do the trick. If not, check the HOWTO's on SCSI cdroms...