[Leaplist] CentOS question ....

[William A. Mahaffey III]

David Simmons wrote:

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>>How do I get the DVD to mount where I
>>can use
>>    
>>
>it to install more stuff ?
>
>It appears that your hard-drive is
>in spot 'hda'.....I'm guessing that your DVD drive is the IDE2 master?  If
>so, that would make it /dev/hdc
>
>You can confirm this by
>running:    dmesg | grep hd
>
>it should spit out something
>like
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>.....
>hda: WDC WD800BB-00JHA0, ATA DISK drive
>hdc: 48X16, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
>    ide2: BM-DMA at
>0xdf90-0xdf97, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio     ide3: BM-DMA at
>0xdf98-0xdf9f, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
>........
>
>
>then you can run something like:   mount /dev/hdc /media/cdrom
>
>or mount /dev/hdc /media/cdrecorder  (if the DVD drive is a
>burner)
>
>hope that helps - dave
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I tried this:

[root at cmi2400:/etc, Thu Jan 18, 09:23 PM] 205 # dmesg > /root/boot.txt

then

[root at cmi2400:/etc, Thu Jan 18, 09:25 PM] 206 # grep hd /root/boot.txt
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
    ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: WDC WD200BB-00AUA1, ATA DISK drive
hdb: SAMSUNG SP1614N, ATA DISK drive
hdd: ST3400832A, ATA DISK drive
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 39102336 sectors (20020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=38792/16/63, UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes not supported
 hda: hda1 hda2
hdb: max request size: 1024KiB
hdb: 312581808 sectors (160041 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=19457/255/63, 
UDMA(100)
hdb: cache flushes supported
 hdb: hdb1
hdd: max request size: 1024KiB
hdd: 781422768 sectors (400088 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=48641/255/63, 
UDMA(100)
hdd: cache flushes supported
 hdd: hdd1
EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal
SELinux: initialized (dev hda1, type ext3), uses xattr
e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog_task: NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex
[root at cmi2400:/etc, Thu Jan 18, 09:27 PM] 207 #

I see no /dev/hdc or /dev/cdrom (referenced in automount files) ....

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