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 Linux on PowerPC FAQ-O-Matic : System Configuration : Disks :
Problems mounting CDs, floppies |
I can't get any audio CDs to mount and play. I can HAND mount one if it is a data CD, but not if it is audio. Do you have to use the MOUNT command to do this? If so, what specific string must be entered? Is there any way for Linux to see what kind of CD is in there (Windows, HFS, audio) and automatically mount it properly? The same goes for floppies -- do you have to hand mount a floppy (PC or Mac) every time you put one in? The autoeject feature does not seem to be working either for floppies. I installed the whole multimedia package when I installed Linux. I have a G3/266 desktop with an IDE CD-ROM. The mount utility (I think it's in the KDE package) doesn't do any better.
msnow@world.std.com |
You can not mount audio CD because they contain no filesystem structure. Instead you need to edit your '/etc/fstab' to include a '/dev/cdrom' device. Make sure you grant priveleges to use the drive. The syntax looks something like this for my Powerbook G3 but may be different for you...
dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,noexec,nodev,nosuid,ro,noauto 0 0
Then to play audio CD's make sure you set the properties for your CD player, either for x or KDE players to 'dev/cdrom/'. Next goto a console and type;
sndvolmix -c 15 {return}
to set up CD-ROM audio playthough. You can later tweak the settings using xmixer or kmixer. One note, even though LinuxPPC boots into X with the Gnome GUI under your multimedia menu you'll see listings for the apps Audio mixer and CD Player. The link for the mixer was wrong in my release. It should be linked to 'xmixer' not 'xmix'. Change that or you'll think it was never installed. And it was.
nmincone@home.com |
Forgot to mention one very important item! Due to the way the CD-ROM is initialized if you boot directly into Linux from the startup BootX extension the CD-ROM is rendered useless to play audio CD's but not to mount CD-ROMS. To play audio CD's let the Mac boot into OS completely, then load the BootX application (I keep mine in the control panels folder) and click 'Linux'. Now the CD will play audio's too.
nmincone@home.com |
Here's a less obfuscated explanation of how to get your machine to recognize your CD-ROM drive:
cd /dev
MAKEDEV scd0
ln -s scd0 cdrom
Then, add this line to /etc/fstab
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto 0 0
I forget where I read it, but this won't work with some Mac clones. It does work with a PowerTowerPro 225. rich-linux@lists.global-commons.co.jp |
really?
My linuxppc didn't boot from using bootX control pannel, it coudn't recognize "Linux PPC standard pre"15so I installed "vmlinux" kernel on my Mac HFS partion-/boot separately, after do it boots very good. But one problem occured that CD rom doesnt work.
I wanted to install additional packages from linuxppc 2000 CD, so I think I booted my mac into Mac OS completely and then reboot to the Linuxppc 2000, but CDrom was still not recognized...An error message,
like "/tmp/install does not includ pacakages....mount cdrom" appear on the screen...!!!
khp21@korea.com |
I have the same problem with MkLinux Pre-1 running on a PowerMac 7100/80. After booting to MkLinux, logging in root, and starting the GUI I can't get the CD-ROM or Floppy to auto mount. I have been running Linux 7.1 on an X86 machine for a while now and never seen this problem before so I figure it's isolated to the something in the Mac platform (or the Mac version of Linux). While I have not tried the fore-mentioned fixes for the CD-ROM, I noticed no one has said anything about getting the floppy to mount. Any suggestions or known fixes?
e.aleman@gte.net |
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