[solved] mount CD/DVD

This is my problem
the DVD only shows up in "system:/media/sr0
not in
or in
My DVD Player, and also MP3 Player can't find the DVD. The Error,
no media found in "/media"
I have two DVD one DVDRom and one DVD +-RW DL Burner
so far there is no problem with K3B to burn a DVD or CD.
This Error is related to Amarok, Kaffeine, XMMS, Gxine and another players. They don't find the DVD or CD.
vi /etc/rc.conf
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng hwd network netfs kdm dbus hal crond)
What do I missing?
Last edited by JaDa (2007-06-28 23:53:07)

ndlarsen wrote:
Misfit138 wrote:I have my dvd/cdrom entries commented out in my fstab, and I let hal handle it completely. Works great.
It does look like the icon text states "blank something".
oops, it is blank & jones my test audio CD!
My problem is solved! Thanks for all your ideas!
The most important what I missed was "autofs"! Hal and dbus are not enough!
Install autofs
pacman -S autofs
then follow this wiki
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AutoFS_HowTo
very important
Edit the file /etc/autofs/auto.master. Delete the existing contents and add the following line:
/media /etc/autofs/auto.media
and take a closer look if you using VI or VIM command on "/media /" it's not "/media/"
If Autofs doesn't automatically unmount your devices (after you finish this wiki), replace last line by :
/media /etc/autofs/auto.media --timeout 3
you need to add "--timeout 3"
also add the daemon "aufofs" in the "/etc/rc.conf" if you like it at the startup.
The USB devises for digital camera and USB Stick or just changing Musik/Movie CD/DVD just work fine now.
There is no error anymore in Kaffeine or another players
no media found in "/media"
all is works perfect. The Icon's for mounted devises show now up on my desktop (KDE) too!

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Last edited by choubbi (2011-08-15 15:05:04)

Thanks a lot !
That worked !
I stumbled across this part of the wiki several times before, but didn't really understand so I had not tried.
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SOLVED: Mounting IDE ZIP Drives, "Special Device hdb4 Does Not Exist"

I thought I would post a follow-up, since I have finally resolved this long standing issue, which has plagued me since my first days with Linux many years ago.
As outlined in my original post below, every time I would attempt to access a Zip disk for the first time since boot, Linux (pretty much all distros I have ever tried, with the exception of SuSE 9.3) would fail to mount the disk and report back that "Special device hdb4 does not exist". Of course the "hdb4" part varies from distro to distro and machine to machine, depending on how your Zip disk is connected and how the distro names its disks, but the basic error has been constant. I have always worked around it by redoing the mount command specifying just the device, not the partition, and while that would always fail, it would force the creation of the device /dev/hdb4, and I could carry on. Annoying but effective.
FINALLY, a long term answer. I got my inspiration from a really snarky post I read in another online forum where someone had posted this very same question (this is a very common problem with no common answer it seems!). The respondant, who completely failed to provide a helpful answer, basically said "listen, the OS is telling you what is wrong - the device hdb4 doesn't exist - so fix it, and all will be just fine". Of course, the respondant didn't even bother to offer a suggestion about HOW to fix it.
However, therein lies the inspiration for the solution. Indeed they are right, /dev/hdb4 *doesn't* exist, so how to fix that? They had a point. I started researching the mysteries of mknod, a program that can create /dev files, and the even deeper mysteries of Linux device numbers, both major and minor.
In the end, I found a wonderfully informative document that described the current standard for the device numbering scheme used by mknod, and Linux in general. The key things of interest are this:
1/ The major number for IDE based drives is 3.
2/ IDE allows for 64 partitions per device, so the minor numbers are 0-63 for device "a", 64-127 for device "b" and so on. You derive the minor number of interest for your particular device by taking the starting value of the minor number range of interest for your device and adding the partition number to it. So, for example, hdb4 would have a minor number of 64 (the start of the minor number range for device "b") plus 4 (the partition number in "hdb4"), yielding a result of 68.
3/ The major number for SCSI based drives, or those that your OS treats as SCSI, is 8.
4/ SCSI allows for 16 partitions per device, so the minor numbers are 0-15 for device "a", 16-31 for device "b" and so on. You derive the minor number of interest for your particular device by taking the starting value of the minor number range of interest for your device and adding the partition number to it. So, for example, sdb4 would have a minor number of 16 (the start of the minor number range for device "b") plus 4 (the partition number in "hdb4"), yielding a result of 20.
In my case, Arch seems to be treating all of my disk based devices as SCSI, perhaps because I do have a real SCSI interfaced Jaz drive in my machine. So, the Zip disk of interest in my machine is sdc4 (my real SCSI jaz is sda, my Arch root is sdb, and the IDE Zip is sdc). Applying the above, for /dev/sdc4:
- The major number is 8.
- The minor number is 32 (start of range for device "c") plus 4 (the partition number) = 36.
Armed with this knowledge, I su'd to root and entered:
# mknod /dev/sdc4 b 8 36
and like magic, there is was, /dev/sdc4. I popped a disk into the drive and my first attempt to access it was greeted with success, not the usual "device does not exist" error! By the way, the "b" in the above command is just part of the mknod syntax, and indicates that I am creating a block device (vs. a character device, or some other type of device - disk drives all seem to be "block" devices for apparent reasons).
SO, determine your major number by device type (it will usually be 3 or 8), compute your minor number by device letter and partition number, and add a mknod command to your system startup (so you don't have to do it manually every time) and you are done! No more annoying "device does not exist" errors.
Now for the kicker. It turns out that this information has been available under my nose all along. I just didn't recognize the code. If you do the following:
# ls -ald /dev/sd*
Linux obligingly provides you with the major number and the start of the minor number range for your device. Since Linux has always detected the Zip *device* (just not the partition) this is really all you need to know. When I issue the above command, I get an output like:
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 32 date time /dev/sdc
Guess what, there they are! "8" is the major number of interest, "32" is the start of the minor number range of interest. If I had just recognized that, and known that all I had to do was add the partition number to the minor number to get the magic number to feed into mknod, things would have been easier.
Sorry for the long post, but like so many things in Linux, the OS doesn't make this easy on the uninitiated. I sincerely hope that this post may help lots of other people to resolve this vexing and longstanding problem.

Solved!
See the lengthy response in this post:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=36468
I posted the solution separately, with the most informative title I could come up with, so that others Googling this topic on the web may hopefully easily find it.

[Solved] Mounting Partitions from Beginners Guide

Hi everyone. I've setup Arch before, but I see that the installer has been removed. I had a question on some of the documentation from the Beginners Guide...
From the section "Prepare the storage drive" it states to setup the partitions like so:
Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB)
sda1 Boot Primary Linux 15440
sda2 Primary Linux swap / Solaris 1024
sda3 Primary Linux 133000*
In the section below it ("Mount the partitions ") it explains to "mount any other separate partition" like so:
# mkdir /mnt/home
# mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/home
# mkdir /mnt/boot
# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot
However, I set my partitions up just how it was above, when I put in the syntax "mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/home" I receive an error that sda4 doesn't exist. Using my best judgement I put in "mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/home" as I set my partitions exactly the way from the storage drive section (minus some storage space for sda3). I'd just like to be sure that I set this up right and not doing anything extremely wrong. For some reason, Arch won't boot after I have the system setup in virtualbox, and I'm trying to narrow down the issue.
Thanks.
Last edited by Quill (2012-09-01 04:16:22)

Trilby wrote:
It says to do that if you have any additional partitions. You do not.
Sda3 should not be mounted as home, it should be your root partition right? You should have already done
mount /dev/sda3 /mnt
You should not remount sda3 as something else (in fact I suspect it should give an error).
That partition scheme does not have a separate home parition.
Cool, thanks for the info. Yeah, sda3 is set as my root partition. It's solved.

Error trying to mount the DVD to a network based ISO image in Windows 2008 Hyper-V RC0

Greetings,
When I try to configre the guest OS settings to mount the CD/DVD drive to an ISO image I have setting on a file share, I consistently get an error. The only time I have been able to mount an ISO since upgrading to RC0 (I don't remember if I tested this in the BETA) is when the ISO is locally on the Windows 2008 Hyper-V server.
To be specific, I get the following error:
Virtual Machine Connection (title of the window)
Inserting the disk failed.
Failed to add device 'Microsoft Virtual CD/DVD disk'.
User account does not have sufficient privelage to open attachment '\\remoteserver\share\ISONAME.ISO'.
Error: 'General access denied error'
'NEWGUESTOSNAME' failed to add device 'Microsoft Virtual CD/DVD Disk'. (VMID 26C8B66F-5D3F-47F9-9D80-474D0F778522)
'NEWGUESTOSNAME': User Account does not have sufficient privelage to open attachement '\\remoteserver\share\ISONAME.ISO'.
Error: 'General access denied error' (0x80070005). (VMID 26C8B66F-5D3F-47F9-9D80-474D0F778522)
I am not sure what credentials it is using. It looks almost like it is using the new computer name as credentials or something like that. The account I am logged in as at the time is a Domain Admin and has access to every server and every share. I can browse to the ISO just fine through the Hyper-V Insert Disk function, it just won't take.
I have checked the Hyper-V server settings and the Guest OS settings and can't find where to specifcy what account to use to connect to remote ISOs. Anyone have any clue on what I am doing wrong?

Thanks for the various replies.
Understood it is an issue with the Hyper-V server computer account getting the files, and not the actual guest OS. At this point I think I will just copy some ISO's to the server. I did note the last time I used a "local" ISO that I had to manually type out the local path to the files on the server, as when I tried to browse to the local server drives through the console I got an error about connecting to the local server (which wasn't really local) through the network drives. I don't remember the exact error, but I know I couldn't get it to point to the ISO on the D:\ drive through the browse feature, but rather I just typed out the path and it was fine. That too seems like a bit of a buy/annoyance as I should be able to browse files local to the Hyper-V server, and not have to type out the path.
I guess I would ask MSFT to consider changing the behavior of the console just a little before RTM if it is being run remotely against the Hyper-V server, versus locally on it, if the permissions being used to get to the remote files are going to be different depending. I.E. It is not intuitive that the same exact action in the same exact console would behave any differently when the console is run on the Hyper-V server versus remotely against the Hyper-V server. I.E. Add in a pop-up when remotely connected to the Hyper-V server to let the user know that some permissions may not proxy through (or whatever verbiage you want to use).
This will pop-up more and more as people like me try to deploy Hyper-V on Core servers, and they used Hyper-V on a normal Windows 2008 server previously.
Thanks!

[SOLVED] mount.nfs4: access denied by server

Hi folks. I seem to be having a bit of a problem getting nfs4 to work. I am trying to mount a share from alpha (my fileserver) onto charlie (my workstation). Both of these are new Arch systems and I haven't had any nfs working yet, although I have with other distros on the same hardware.
Fileserver (alpha) config:
# /etc/exports
/files 192.164.1.0/24(rw,sync,fsid=0,no_subtree_check)
# /etc/hosts.allow
sshd: 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0
nfsd: 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0
rpcbind: 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0
mountd: 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0
idmapd: 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0
statd: 192.168.1.0/255.255.255.0
[General]
Verbosity = 3
Pipefs-Directory = /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs
Domain = localdomain
[Mapping]
Nobody-User = nobody
Nobody-Group = nobody
[Translation]
Method = nsswitch
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
#/dev/cdrom /media/cd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
#/dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
#/dev/fd0 /media/fl auto user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sda1 /boot ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda5 / ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda6 /var ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda7 /home ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda8 /files ext3 defaults 0 1
rpc_pipefs /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs rpc_pipefs defaults 0 0
nfsd /proc/fs/nfsd nfsd rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network netfs rpcbind nfs-common nfs-server hal @alsa @crond @openntpd @sshd)
[root@alpha ~]# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5 19228276 879492 17372036 5% /
none 507792 140 507652 1% /dev
none 507792 0 507792 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 93307 15887 72603 18% /boot
/dev/sda6 19228276 372632 17878896 3% /var
/dev/sda7 19228276 176224 18075304 1% /home
/dev/sda8 902688436 204872 856629640 1% /files
[root@alpha ~]#
Workstation (charlie) config:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
#/dev/cdrom /media/cd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
#/dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
#/dev/fd0 /media/fl auto user,noauto 0 0
UUID=437982b2-5c84-4f53-954d-cf43f8b4e707 / ext3 defaults 0 1
UUID=97d79d76-357a-4f4e-8513-f181bff6af62 /boot ext3 defaults 0 1
UUID=d8525095-9b97-4439-932f-8f4e0236cce1 /home ext3 defaults 0 1
UUID=ffba933b-af93-407c-b1b8-69d1cc5be146 swap swap defaults 0 0
rpc_pipefs /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs rpc_pipefs defaults 0 0
alpha:/ /files nfs4 defaults 0 0
[General]
Verbosity = 3
Pipefs-Directory = /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs
Domain = localdomain
[Mapping]
Nobody-User = nobody
Nobody-Group = nobody
[Translation]
Method = nsswitch
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network crond alsa hal fam rpcbind nfs-common netfs)
[root@charlie ~]# mount -a
mount.nfs4: access denied by server while mounting alpha:/
[root@charlie ~]#
This happens even after both systems are rebooted. Can anyone spot what I am missing?
Thanks for looking.
Last edited by dgregory46 (2009-10-21 01:04:09)

Now I really feel stupid. A little proofreading would have saved me a big headache. In /etc/exports I was exporting to 192.164.1.0/24 while my network is the more standard 192.168.1.0/24.
It works fine now, although I did take phaul's suggestion and added my main share "inside" the nfs4 root.

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