On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 08:50 -0500, Lanny Marcus wrote: > On 01 May 2008, Alan Bartlett ajb.stxsl at googlemail.com wrote: > > Thu May 1 12:45:38 UTC 2008 > <snip> > > > (a) The Teac DV-516D DVD/CD reader is not supported in this kernel or > > > somewhere else in CentOS 5. or > > > > > > (b) The DVD/CD reader is somewhat faulty. > > > > > > (c) However, Windows XP shows it to be "OK" and I can see the contents > > > of the FC6 install DVD OK, in Windoze. Also, I can boot from the CentOS5 > > > and FC6 Install DVD's, without any problem. And, I was able to mount the > > > FC6 Install DVD, in a terminal and install the RPM I wanted to install, > > > without any problems. Thank you, very much, for your time and ideas! > > > > > > Lanny - Thanks for the update. I would recommend, therefore, that you > > replace the CD/DVD-ROM with a modern DVD writer that can cope with > > CD-RW/DVD-RW/DVD+RW, etc, formats. When I refurbished this workstation, a > > Dell OptiPlex GX1 (manufactured last quarter 1999 :-D ), I replaced its > > original CD-ROM drive with a multi-format AOpen DVD/CD rewritable optical > > drive, model no. DUW1616L and have had absolutely no problem with it at all. > > I seem to recall it cost me UK£41-00. However once you've done the > > conversion at the current exchange rate, I don't know if you will think that > > is good value - or not. > > > > As for all mentions of Windoze, I would trust/believe that about as far as I > > could spit into a high wind! > > Alan: Thank you for all of the ideas you've had in this thread! I strongly suspect that your > idea of replacing the Teac CD/DVD-ROM with something else, is the only way to end this problem. My belief > now is that there is no support to auto mount a DVD in that Teac drive, in CentOS 5. Probably, when it was > my box and it worked OK, it was with a prior release of CentOS or Fedora Core and something has changed > and the auto mount support for that drive (for DVD media) was removed. I rarely use Windoze, but it was very helpful, to be able to test the same > CD/DVD-ROM drive and verify that it works perfectly under Windoze. I was able to mount the DVD in a terminal and install the RPM I wanted to > install OK, so that also makes me believe the drive is OK. Lanny > Something I don't think no one has thought of: [root at ethan ~]# rpm -qa | grep auto automake15-1.5-16 autoconf-2.59-12 automake17-1.7.9-7 automake-1.9.6-2.1 automake16-1.6.3-8 automake14-1.4p6-13 autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.55.el5.3 Make sure you autofs installed: autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.55.el5.3 Other than that, that's about all.... > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- ~/john OpenPGP Sig:BA91F079