Re: cd rom and blkdev on mol


Subject: Re: cd rom and blkdev on mol
From: antadam (antadam@lunch-lady.com)
Date: Mon Jan 29 2001 - 16:40:44 MST


ok did that and it works great, thanx...now any clue about the cdrom???
as far as i know everything is set up correctly. /dev/cdrom isn't mounted,
uncommented blkdev: /dev/cdrom -cd, and started up mol. shouldn't i just be
able to put in a cd and it'll find the cd???
thanks
adam

On Monday 29 January 2001 05:15 pm, you wrote:
> When a disk is already mounted under Linux, it'll be locked when you run
> MOL. So if you don't want it to be locked, unmount it under Linux first,
> then start MOL.
>
> antadam peered up to the sky and declared:
> > i'm running the latest version of mol on a g3 blue and white rev 2 w/ydl
> > 1.2.1 kernel 2.2.18pre21. i go in to edit the /etc/molrc file, remove
> > the
> > comments and rerun mol after i save and quit. there is a link to /dev/
> > cdrom
> > to /dev/hde which is where my cd rom is located so i'm not missing
> > anything.
> > in addition, w/molrc, i changed the blkdev for my sda drive to sda7 where
> > the
> > hfs partition is on, its mounted by linux at the same time, but i saved
> > the
> > molrc file, rebooted, and it still says the drives are locked. is there
> > something that needs to be rerun like ldconfig does for ld.so.conf???
> > thanks in advance
> > adam



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