Hi, I have just kickstarted another RHEL5 server andnnoticed that there is no entry in fstab to mount a CD. Also the /mnt and /media directories are empty. I was able to mount a CD (actually an ISO image attached to the virtual machine) but I'd like to know why this is not working on RHEL5 as it does on older versions of RHEL. I've included the output of the (as far as I know) relevant commands below. This is on a server that has been installed with as few packages as possible, so perhaps there is just a "base" package missing but I couldn't find any package that would fit the bill. The software section of my kickstart profile is: -bluez-gnome vim-enhanced -ypbind -Deployment_Guide-en-US -bluez-libs -cups -ppp -cups-libs -wpa_supplicant -mesa-libGL ntp -yp-tools -bluez-utils sysstat -NetworkManager I've found several references to this problem on the net, particularly related to VMWare but all the proposed solutions were to mount the Cd manually as I did. [mertensb@portalpocsrv ~]$ ll /mnt/ total 0 [mertensb@portalpocsrv ~]$ ll /media/ total 0 [mertensb@portalpocsrv ~]$ ps auxwww|grep hald 68 2243 0.0 0.1 5392 3612 ? Ss 17:48 0:00 hald root 2244 0.0 0.0 3148 1092 ? S 17:48 0:00 hald-runner 68 2253 0.0 0.0 2012 824 ? S 17:48 0:00 hald-addon-acpi: listening on acpid socket /var/run/acpid.socket 68 2257 0.0 0.0 2012 828 ? S 17:48 0:00 hald-addon-keyboard: listening on /dev/input/event0 root 2266 0.0 0.0 1968 704 ? S 17:48 0:00 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/hda mertensb 2661 0.0 0.0 3912 692 pts/0 R+ 18:14 0:00 grep hald [mertensb@portalpocsrv ~]$ ps auxwww|grep udev root 410 0.0 0.0 2808 1368 ? S<s 17:48 0:00 /sbin/udevd -d mertensb 2663 0.0 0.0 3912 696 pts/0 R+ 18:14 0:00 grep udev [mertensb@portalpocsrv ~]$ sudo grep -i cd /var/log/anaconda.* /var/log/anaconda.log:02:59:05 INFO : modules to insert cdrom ide-cd /var/log/anaconda.log:02:59:06 INFO : loaded cdrom from /modules/modules.cgz /var/log/anaconda.log:02:59:06 INFO : loaded ide-cd from /modules/modules.cgz /var/log/anaconda.log:02:59:06 INFO : inserted /tmp/cdrom.ko /var/log/anaconda.log:02:59:06 INFO : inserted /tmp/ide-cd.ko /var/log/anaconda.log:02:59:17 INFO : trying to mount CD device hda /var/log/anaconda.log:02:59:48 DEBUG : Matched nscd - 2.5-12.i386 to require for nscd /var/log/anaconda.log:03:00:18 DEBUG : Matched nscd - 2.5-12.i386 to require for nscd /var/log/anaconda.log:05:00:45 DEBUG : Member: nscd.i386 0-2.5-12 - u /var/log/anaconda.log:05:00:45 DEBUG : Adding Package nscd - 2.5-12.i386 in mode u /var/log/anaconda.syslog:<6>found SMP MP-table at 000f6cd0 /var/log/anaconda.syslog:<4>hda: VMware Virtual IDE CDROM Drive, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive /var/log/anaconda.syslog:<6>hda: ATAPI 1X CD-ROM drive, 32kB Cache, UDMA(33) /var/log/anaconda.syslog:<6>Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 /var/log/anaconda.syslog:<4>Unable to identify CD-ROM format. [mertensb@portalpocsrv ~]$ ll /dev/cdrom* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Jun 17 18:17 /dev/cdrom -> hda lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Jun 17 18:17 /dev/cdrom-hda -> had [mertensb@portalpocsrv ~]$ sudo mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/ mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only Kind regards Bram -- Bram Mertens Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) Mazda Motor Logistics Europe NV, Blaasveldstraat 162, B-2830 Willebroek VAT BE 0406.024.281, RPR Mechelen, ING 310-0092504-52, IBAN : BE64 3100 0925 0452, SWIFT : BBRUBEBB -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
