Re: cd doesn't automount

From: Timothy Larson (thelarsons3_at_cox.net)
Date: 03/11/05


Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:14:58 -0600

In article <slrnd2ddue.3thc.ivanr@omen.melbourne.sgi.com>,
 Ivan Rayner <ivanr@sgi.com> wrote:

> Timothy Larson <thelarsons3@cox.net> wrote:
> > I can't even get the CD to mount manually. It should be as easy as
> > "mount -t <type> <dev> <dir>" but I get "block device required" errors
> > all the time.
>
> mediad comes with IRIX. You need to have eoe.sw.rm_media installed.
> If you don't have mediad, you can mount CDs manually, but let's not
> bother with that. Do the following to check if you have it:

I still wonder why I couldn't get CDs to mount manually.

> If you don't have it, you'll get no listing, and you'll need to
> install it from the IRIX CDs.

I did get it installed. Thanks, everybody.

Tim



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