[CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?
Lanny Marcus
lannyma at gmail.com
Tue Apr 29 16:18:05 UTC 2008
On 28 April 2008, Mike Peterson" <mpeterson AT mail.charlesfurniture.com wrote:
>Message: 21
>Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 17:27:44 -0500
>Subject: RE: [CentOS] DVD reader: Hardware problem or OS glitch?
>To: "'CentOS mailing list'" <centos at centos.org>
>Message-ID: <00c901c8a97f$144a1800$de00000a at ITAW>
>I have yet to get a DVD to read in CentOS 5.
>I can install from DVD and then reboot and then the DVD drive is no longer
>accessible.
> It works with several live CD and DVD images with no problems however.
>This is on an HP system.
>I think it is an OS problem.
> I will test in some other systems and let you know my results.
Mike: I found a *very* recent thread in the web forum of centos.org
<http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?post_id=47249&topic_id=13912>
Alan Bartlett wrote to:
mkdir /mnt/cdrom and then mount -r -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
Here's the FC6 Install DVD I want to install an RPM from:
[root at dell1602 ~]# dir /mnt/cdrom
eula.txt RELEASE-NOTES-en_US.html RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-rawhide
Fedora repodata RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-test
fedora.css RPM-GPG-KEY RPM-GPG-KEY-rawhide
GPL RPM-GPG-KEY-beta stylesheet-images
images RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora TRANS.TBL
isolinux RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-extras
README-Accessibility RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-legacy
[root at dell1602 ~]#
The contents of the DVD still do not show up if I open the Icon for it
on the GNOME Desktop or if I click on "Computer" and then open that
drive. Doing that, the media still appears to be empty.
Like you, I am now 99.9% sure that this is not a HW problem. I am
very puzzled, why this works, without any problems, on 2 of the 3
boxes I did clean installs on, last Thanksgiving weekend and not on
this box. Lanny
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