Red Hat 8.0 ignores CD-ROMs

[McBugzz]

I'm having trouble with RH 8.0 - the Add and Remove Packages thing doesn't seem to work or smth. It says it can't read the cd's in the cd-rom, while the disc is inside, and the right disc, I might add. Why?

It doesn't seem to see any of my 2 devices: Pioneer DVD-ROM and Teac CD-RW. How come? I installed the damn thing using Teac drive, so why doesn't it see it now?

 

[sleipnir214]

Are you mounting the drive? Want the best answers? Ask the best questions:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

TANSTAAFL!

 

[McBugzz]

It doesn't want to be. It says there's no media in the drive - that's the problem - there is media in the drive!

 

[sleipnir214]

Just to ask the dumb question.....

It's not grubby fingerprints on the read surface, is it?


And then on to some smarter questions...

Can the disk be read in other machines?
Can your machine read any disks?
What parameters are you handing to mount? Want the best answers? Ask the best questions:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

TANSTAAFL!

 

[McBugzz]

Of course cd's can be read. And so do the dvd's, and cd's can be burned etc. All the hardware works exactly as it should. Under WinXP that is.

Like I said, it doesn't want to read the INSTALLATION cd's. RH was installed from them.

mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

is what I tried, but I also tried to use the GUI functions. Nothing works.