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Hey, Amateur Gentooist here.
So in a nutshell, I am currently running a stage3 package of the AMD64 gentoo lineup. Im up to the point where I have kde/fluxbox/dr.17/etc up ...
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- 05-10-2006 #1Just Joined!
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multiple cdroms, permissions, and copy protection
Hey, Amateur Gentooist here.
So in a nutshell, I am currently running a stage3 package of the AMD64 gentoo lineup. Im up to the point where I have kde/fluxbox/dr.17/etc up and running, however, Im having some noobish issues accessing my cdroms. I have one regular old CDROM and i have a CDRW drive.
As per my fstab and essentially my system in general, I can only see one of the drives.
Here is what my fstab shows for you guys
/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2
/dev/hda3 / reiserfs notail,noatime 0 1
/dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/ntfs ntfs user,ro,umask=0133,dmask=000 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
#/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto 0 0
so obviously, me second logical step is to put my second cdrom in to the fstab. Unfortunately, I have no clue how to mount it up. I am confident the drive is /dev/cdrom1 as I see it in the system, but do I mount it to /mnt/cdrom as well? do i have to make another folder called /mnt/cdrom1 and mount it there?
Second, attempting to be a linux gamer, I found out (via cedega) that 'only root can mount /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 to /mnt/cdrom'.
This brings up a few more questions for me.
for permissions, would I set it up much like my ntfs drive, and add the user,ro,umask=0133,dmask=000 to each drive as well? or do other masks have to be put on for these type of drives
and also, cedega says /dev/cdroms/cdrom0, when my system only shows /dev/cdrom, /dev/cdrom1 and /dev/cdrw. Did I set something up wrong in the installation?
I know I am asking a lot, but any assistance on any of these issues would be really appreciated
- 05-11-2006 #2Just Joined!
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The first obstacle I got passed is the cdroms.
As you can see from my fstab, I had my cdrom as the basic installation. first i started ls'ing what was in my dev folder/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 noauto,noatime 1 2
/dev/hda3 / reiserfs notail,noatime 0 1
/dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/ntfs ntfs user,ro,umask=0133,dmask=000 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
#/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto 0 0
I foundls /dev/cd[tabx2]
so my first big problem (and the problem cedega was having) was that in my fstab, i had my cdrom drive located at '/dev/cdroms/cdrom0' instead of '/dev/cdrom0'/dev/cdrom0 /dev/cdrom1 /dev/cdrw
the second thing was the tags I had for the cdrom.
Initially, I just did a straightforward copy of the ntfs permissions, but it was messy, and gave me permission issues, so I went with:
after changing that, and running env-update, my drive began auto-mounting/dev/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro,noexec,user 0 0
Now for my second CDROM:
What I did first was make a seperate folder in the mount directory called cdrom1
Then I opened up Vim and changed my fstabmkdir /mnt/cdrom1
I added invim /etc/fstab
Now both are being read fine, and mount as soon as any media is in./dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 iso9660 noauto,ro,noexec,user 0 0
This is probably basic information, but hopefully, this proves helpful to others who may be having the same, or similar issue


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