Mount point problem newbee serious level

very frustrated

was at one time as user
went to cd
found cd (windows)

use wine to install the program--loved it

then played around with wine again and destroyed directories ( no
problem here just learning linux)

no i have to access the cdrom and get errors that make no sense to me

is my system broken?


using debian 2.4.6 ( i believe)


trying to mount cdrom

here is fstab








/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /cdrom1 iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
/dev/dvd /dvd iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
/dev/cdaudio /cdaudio iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/auto/cdrom1 auto users,noauto,exec,ro 0 0


here are my errors

i get identical errors when i try the cdrom in the cd tray

cdrom is in cdrom1

root@home:~# mount /dev/cdrom1 /mnt/auto/cdrom1


mount: mount point /mnt/auto/cdrom1 does not exist


cd /mnt/lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Oct 27 14:04 cdrom ->
/mnt /mnt/auto/cdrom

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Jul 14 10:23 cdrom1 ->
/mnt/auto/cdrom1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 14 10:27 dvd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Jul 14 10:23 floppy ->
/mnt/auto/floppy


tia
peter

In article <VtdAd.5458$qf5.5399@newsread3.news.atl.earthlink. net>,
ilaboo wrote:

>very frustrated

Very hard to read what you are trying to say

>no i have to access the cdrom and get errors that make no sense to me

OK

>using debian 2.4.6 ( i believe)

uname -a
cat /etc/debian_version

>trying to mount cdrom
>
>here is fstab

>/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
>/dev/cdrom1 /cdrom1 iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
>/dev/dvd /dvd iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
>/dev/cdaudio /cdaudio iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
>/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/auto/cdrom1 auto users,noauto,exec,ro 0 0

1 problem - you have /dev/cdrom1 listed twice. Delete one or the other

>root@home:~# mount /dev/cdrom1 /mnt/auto/cdrom1
>mount: mount point /mnt/auto/cdrom1 does not exist

OK, what does 'ls -lad / /mnt /mnt/auto' show? I'm guessing, but I
think you are missing '/mnt' and/or '/mnt/auto' and/or the three directories
you are defining in /mnt/auto/.

>cd /mnt/lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Oct 27 14:04 cdrom ->
>/mnt /mnt/auto/cdrom
>
>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Jul 14 10:23 cdrom1 ->
>/mnt/auto/cdrom1
>drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 14 10:27 dvd
>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Jul 14 10:23 floppy ->
>/mnt/auto/floppy

I suspect this is part of your / directory, and it should look like this
with some spaces removed to fit on one line in this news article:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Oct 27 14:04 cdrom -> /mnt/auto/cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Jul 14 10:23 cdrom1 -> /mnt/auto/cdrom1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 14 10:27 dvd
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Jul 14 10:23 floppy -> /mnt/auto/floppy
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 14 10:27 mnt

and in /mnt you should see

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 14 10:27 auto

and in /mnt/auto you should see

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 14 10:27 cdrom
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 14 10:27 cdrom1
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jul 14 10:27 floppy

Using the second line in /etc/fstab as an example,

/dev/cdrom1 /cdrom1 iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0

you are saying that the /dev/cdrom1 is to be mounted on /cdrom1. Looking at
the directory listing of / you should see that directory OR a link named
/cdrom1 pointing at some other point - in this case probably /mnt/auto/cdrom1.
The error message you are getting is saying that the directory you want to
use (/mnt/auto/cdrom1 in your error message) does not exist. You'd get the
same error if you tried to mount the CD to /cdrom1 because the directory
your link is pointing to doesn't exist. The solution as root is probably

mkdir -p /mnt/auto/cdrom
mkdir -p /mnt/auto/cdrom1
mkdir -p /mnt/auto/floppy

with the -p switch telling mkdir to create the '/mnt' and '/mnt/auto'
directories if they don't exist.

Old guy