Mount CDROM fails

[johmidl]

I have 11.1-2.6.27.23-0.1 on two drives. The one I have not updated for a couple of weeks. That one mounts CDROM as:
/dev/sr0 /dev/cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
This drive that is up to date returns the message;
"mount: mount point /dev/cdrom is not a directory",
with precisely the same fstab setting.
I just don't have a clue as to what is going on!
Someone heeelp, please!

[caf4926]

cdrom's are not mounted in fstab

what desktop are you using

[hcvv]

Maybe the fstab entries are the same, but I think /dev/cdrom is not the same on both systems.

/dev/cdrom should be a link to /dev/sr0.

When on one system /dev/cdrom is a directory you can mount on it, but what you do is faulty. You should mount elsewhere (on a directory).

To check do

ls -l /dev/crom

on both systems.

As caf4926 says, one does not normally mount cdrom and the like via /etc/fstab. This is done by HAL and works via your desktop (window pop-up).

Maybe some reading in SDB:Basics of partitions, filesystems, mount points - openSUSE
might help you understanding what something in /dev/ is (should be) and what a mountpoint is.

[bcrisciotti]

It seems like you are trying to mount your recorder on a link! Usually in the /dev directory there is a link called cdrom pointing to sr0 so there is no sense in mounting on it any filesystem. Instead create a directory called cdrom in /media and mount there: mkdir /media/cdrom
Mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom. All has to be done as root

[johmidl]

You guys have me really confused! I wrote the CDROM from an unstable version of 11.1 with fstab settings. Then I transferred data to second drive as backup using fstab. Now all I want to do is reload the first drive from the CDROM as the backup is only 10 Gig. What has changed with the latest updates?

I have studied mount points, etc in "Help", which basically tell me to set up fstab as I have done.

[caf4926]

Originally Posted by johmidl

You guys have me really confused! I wrote the CDROM from an unstable version of 11.1 with fstab settings. Then I transferred data to second drive as backup using fstab. Now all I want to do is reload the first drive from the CDROM as the backup is only 10 Gig. What has changed with the latest updates?

I have studied mount points, etc in "Help", which basically tell me to set up fstab as I have done.

What!?
If anyone can explain this, they can have a feather in their cap!

[hcvv]

No feathers for me.

@johmidl
I am afraid we are completely lost here. Can you please tell us step by step what you are trying to achieve, what you are doing to achieve this, and where things go wrong. Do not expect us to be clarvoyant or even that we ever have done what you do. Jumping over steps in your explanation, thinking that it will be all very logical to us, will create great problems in our mutual understanding. Give output of error messages, involved configuration files, etc. (and please put computer output between CODE tags to make them readable).

And last but not least, I asked you to do an

ls -l /dev/crom

on both systems. Where is the output?

[bcrisciotti]

mount: mount point /dev/cdrom is not a directory"

I insist: you or your system are trying to mount the filesystem on a link. So the message is really right: /dev/cdrom is not a directory. It is a link! And now i am also wondering what you are trying to archieve.

[whych]

On Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:16:02 +0000, johmidl wrote:

> I have 11.1-2.6.27.23-0.1 on two drives. The one I have not updated for
> a couple of weeks. That one mounts CDROM as: /dev/sr0 /dev/cdrom
> iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0 This drive that is up to date returns
> the message; "mount: mount point /dev/cdrom is not a directory", with
> precisely the same fstab setting. I just don't have a clue as to what is
> going on! Someone heeelp, please!

You need to change:
/dev/sr0 /dev/cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0

to something like:
/dev/sr0 /media/cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0

Then as root create the directory /media/cdrom.

Dependinf on your hardware, removing the fstab entry entirely should work
as well.

[johmidl]

Been out of touch for some time. I am becoming more and more confused! Have always used fstab. Maybe I was not clear enough; I use both hard drives on the same PC. CPU is Intel Celeron CPU 2.66 GHz. I first copied files from unstable version to CDROM using the fstab setting which I loaded to 10 Gig drive as a backup. Then I installed openSUSE 11.1 to the 80 Gig drive. Thats where the problem cropped up; this new installation (11.1-2.6.27.23-0.1) does not accept the fstab settings previously used so I can't load the original files. I am also not clear on the instruction to change to media and then create a directory entry.