Subject: Re: cd rom and blkdev on mol
From: Jeremiah Merkl (merkjj@uleth.ca)
Date: Mon Jan 29 2001 - 16:48:48 MST
nope. CD has to be in the drive before you start MOL. Doesn't matter if
it's mounted or not cuz it's going to be RO no matter what. blkdev
pretends that all the listed items are hard-drives...so Zips and CD's
can't be inserted and removed dynamically...at least that's the way it
used to be.
It's not the best solution in the world, but it gets the job done in the end.
-JM
antadam wrote:
>
> 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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