Cannot use CD after fresh install

bauerber · 2005-01-10 21:14:29

Hi group,

I'm new to archlinux and just have to say, that it seems I have just found what I am looking for. After testing arch on a separate partition and working out most of the settings I was really impressed at the speed and ease of install!
So I transferred my system to arch yesterday from SuSE 9.0.
It is looking quite good so far, pacman is a really smooth installation too (esp. using hwd), so there are no probs with missing software
KDE, nvidia-card and sound are working, and even my printer-scanner (which gave me quite a few probs under SuSE) is up an smoothly running.
The only thing I really miss is being able to use my CD-burner and DVD-drive. I just cannot seem to figure out how to set up those correctly. And automount under KDE seems miles away.

my fstab looks like this:
<fstab>
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0

/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cd iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/dvd udf ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
/dev/floppy/0 /mnt/fl vfat user,noauto,unhide 0 0

/dev/discs/disc0/part8 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/discs/disc0/part3 / reiserfs defaults 0 0
/dev/discs/disc0/part5 /home reiserfs defaults 0 0
/dev/discs/disc0/part2 /old_arch reiserfs defaults 0 0
/dev/discs/disc0/part6 /tmp reiserfs defaults 0 0
/dev/discs/disc0/part7 /multimedia reiserfs defaults 0 0
/dev/discs/disc1/part1 /ablage reiserfs defaults 0 0
/dev/discs/disc1/part5 /mp3 reiserfs defaults 0 0
</fstab>
This is what arch gave me when I started. I feel that I am not too far away from a solution, but somehow...

Could anyone give me some pointers how a correct configuration should look? The devices are /dev/hda and /dev/hdc, but I noticed that the notation is somewhat different with arch, so I am pretty lost at the moment.

Greez

Bernhard

sarah31 · 2005-01-10 22:15:09

do you use devfs or udev?

is your system up-to-date?

if so did you add your user to the optical and audio groups?

if you are using udev did you add the necessary entries to your permissions file in order to identify your optical drives under udev?

There is a new release in the archive, available on the website, that discusses the addition of the optical and audio groups and more. I suggest your track that article down and start from there.

IF you have done what is suggested then please tell us what you have tried and how or under what circumstances led up to not being able to use your drives.

bauerber · 2005-01-11 09:53:40

do you use devfs or udev?

devfs, as far as I know.

is your system up-to-date?

Yes. I did a pacman -Su after installation (the day before yesterday).

if so did you add your user to the optical and audio groups?

Yes. Otherwise sound would probably not be working

I'll look for the suggested article. It is a teeny bit difficult to find an article, if you do not know what topic to look for, btw. So optical / audio is a helpul pointer, thanks.

Bernhard

bauerber · 2005-01-11 10:09:41

Oh, found the article you were referring to (I guess you meant 'New groups in default install: audio and optical').
Doesn't help though, as there is no udev.permissions file on my system.
Maybe it would be a good idea to switch to udev, though, is there any article on how that is done?

Greez

Bernhard

tranquility · 2005-01-11 10:37:50

bauerber wrote:

Oh, found the article you were referring to (I guess you meant 'New groups in default install: audio and optical').
Doesn't help though, as there is no udev.permissions file on my system.
Maybe it would be a good idea to switch to udev, though, is there any article on how that is done?
Greez
Bernhard

http://wiki2.archlinux.org/index.php/UdevHowTo

bauerber · 2005-01-12 11:38:16

ok, installed udev.
but I still cannot access my drives.
here's what I did so far:

- installed udev with pacman
- edited menu.lst and installed grub into MBR (with param devfs=nomount)
- edited fstab (comment on sysfs changed esbdevfs to usbfs)
- rebooted system (no errors)
- created 00-my-udev.permissions and 00-my-udev.rules in appropriate directories

the new files do not contain awfully much, as my users belong to audio and optical groups and therefore already have access to sound and optical drives. but as recommended i still added hda/hdc (my two optical drives) to *.permissions

<00-my-udev.rules as recommended in wiki>
cdrecorder/dvd links
KERNEL="hda" SYMLINK="cdrecorder cdrom"
KERNEL="hdc" SYMLINK="dvd"
</00-my-udev.rules>

<00-my-udev.permissions>
# /etc/udev/00-my-udev.permissions: permission/ownership map for udev
#cd devices
hda:root:users:0660
hdc:root:users:0660

#pilot/palm devices
pilot:root:users:0660

#scanner devices
scanner:root:scanner:0600
usb/scanner*:root:scanner:0600
</00-my-udev.permissions>

do I need to change my fstab and use the devicenames hda/hdc there as well? or should i use the symlinks in fstab?
in kde i get different types of error messages. it says either that the mount point is not there (shouldn't that be created automatically?) or if the mount-point was created beforehand, that the fs-type is wron or too many filesystems are mounted.
it seems to me, that i am not too far from getting a cd mounted at last, but there must be some tiny thing that i just don't see/know.
thanks for getting me this far!

greez

bernhard

Mr Green · 2005-01-12 12:08:22

you need to edit fstab

/dev/hdc     /mnt/<your mount point>

check it as root mount cd ...

mount /mnt/<your mount point>

note you cannot mount a audio cd....

HTH

bauerber · 2005-01-14 10:52:56

That did it!
Many thanks, now that this is solved I think I'll have a look at the autofs-HowTo

Greez
Bernhard

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Cannot use CD after fresh install

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