[101120] in RedHat Linux List
RE: Reading CD-RWs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bruce Richardson)
Tue Nov 24 18:02:29 1998
From: Bruce Richardson <brichardson@lineone.net>
To: "'redhat-list@redhat.com'" <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 22:58:50 -0000
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Shawn Latimer wrote:
<<I've got an Acer 6206A CDRW drive. It came with a free CDRW, and I
can't seem to read it under Linux. It's FAT16 formated; it's got
some windows files and some rpms on it. Any idea how I can read it
under RHL 5.1?>>
If it's really FAT16 formatted then Linux can't read it because it's expecting
ISO9660 format. Maybe you could put another entry for your CD-ROM in
/etc/fstab e.g.
/dev/cdrom /mnt/fatcd vfat (and all the other things)
and that _might_ work.
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