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