OK, those 2 commands did it.  Thanks again Craig.

On Tuesday 01 January 2002 05:06 pm, you wrote:
> Tom Achtenberg wrote:
> >I did update the kernal as soon as I finished the installation.  The CD
> > still will not mount.  Last time was I had an audio cd in the drive. 
> > This time I had one of the distro disks in.
> >
> >On Tuesday 01 January 2002 04:41 pm, you wrote:
> >>Tom Achtenberg wrote:
> >>>Whenever I try to mount the CDROM I get the error message /dev/cdrom not
> >>>a valid block device.  I have a good data cd in the drive.
> >>
> >>---
> >>We covered this one the last time that you installed RH 7.2 - it's a bug
> >>in the original distro.
> >>
> >>update to 2.4.9-7 kernel is best solution
> >>
> >>modprobe /dev/cdrom
> >>depmod -a
> >>
> >>Craig
> >>________________________________________________
>
> OK - did you update the kernel? by default, the up2date-gui will
> probably skip kernel updates.  Did you boot the new kernel? Is grub
> configured to use the new kernel?
>
> Anyway, you should be able to mount cd's after doing the above two
> commands. The kernel update is recommended for a number of reasons
> including mounting ide cd-roms
>
> Craig
>
>
>
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