cd rom not being detected

[shivam71]

Hello Experts,

I have installed fedora core 4 on my hp pc (having sata hard disk). But there are 2 issues I have after the install.

1) cd rom is not detected. (the hp pc that I have is actually having a dvd writer- but this is not getting detected). I really need to have this one sorted out fast as my next work is to have oracle 10g installed on fedora , but as the cd drive is not working so I am quite helpless.

Here are some details:

1) When I give the command:

$ mount /mnt/cdrom

the error I get is:

can't find /mnt/cdrom in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab.


2) the following is the entry in /etc/fstab for cdrom:

/dev/hda /media/cdrecorder auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0


Pl. help me out.


2) ftp does not work. When I try to do ftp it simply says connection refused. Any help here?

The first issue of cd drive is most critical among the 2 issues.

Most thankful for ur inputs.

Shreyaas

[mndar]

$ mount /mnt/cdrom
You will have to use mount /media/cdrecorder or mount /dev/hda
2) ftp does not work. When I try to do ftp it simply says connection refused
Are you sure the server is up and running?

[allmain]

Try /mnt/dev/hda
Regards

Sharke

[shivam71]

Hi Mndar, Allmain,

thank you very much for the reply. I am going to my home in next 30 mins so I will try ur suggestions there and post back after getting back.

About ftp , mndar, I do not know what you mean. - i am a newbie for linux. the question is the server up means there needs to be an ftp server installed? when I was doing installation , i remember that I did NOT install ftp server. is there anything I can do now?

Again , thanks,
S.

[mndar]

Which computer are you trying to connect to ? This computer has to be running the ftp server software. To simply connect to this computer you don't need to install a ftp server
Suppose you are trying to connect to a computer 10.1.9.13 using ftp and incase its not running a ftp server the output will be as follows.
[mndar@mndar ~]$ ftp 10.1.9.13
ftp: connect: Connection refused
ftp>

[shivam71]

Hi Mndar, allmain,

Thanks a ton guys!!, ya my cd rom has started running.

Thanks a lot.

S.

[shivam71]

Mndar,

about ftp , thanks again. I am trying to connect to windows 2000 server. I am not sure whether on the windows machine the ftp server is running or not. I will verify tonight and post back.

Thank you very much!

S.

[w.alzaher]

hello mndar,

"You will have to use mount /media/cdrecorder or mount /dev/hda"

is that for a general CD rom mounting command or is it specific to the persons problem???


thanks

[mndar]

Atleast FC3 and FC4 automatically make entries in /etc/fstab for the DVD-ROM/CD-ROM/CDrecorders that it detects. Generally it is /media/cdrom for the CDROM and /media/cdrecorder for the cdrecorder. If for some reason you are unable to mount your discs or just wanna check it out, open up /etc/fstab and check the entries. The first coloumn gives the device and the second coloumn gives the mount point.