Fedora Core Problems

Ste-

Installed today and am quite happy.
Got most of my apps up and running.
Few problems with mounting tho.

My cd-rom won't eject unless I unmount it.
And I can't mount my Windows drive (dev/hda1 iirc) I've tried mount /dev/hda1 it's saying it can't find it.

[stephen@rfc1918 stephen]$ mount /dev/hda1
mount: can't find /dev/hda1 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
[stephen@rfc1918 stephen]$

Then when I try and fdisk -l

[stephen@rfc1918 stephen]$ fdisk -l
bash: fdisk: command not found
[stephen@rfc1918 stephen]$

Not essential to mount Windows coz in a few weeks/months I want rid of it altogether but the cd-rom drive problem I feel should be the one I fix.

Thanks.

p.s. here's the error of the eject of cdrom.

[stephen@rfc1918 cdrom]$ eject
umount: /mnt/cdrom: device is busy
eject: unmount of `/dev/cdrom' failed
[stephen@rfc1918 cdrom]$

eggshapedfred

you have to specify a directory to mount the windows partition onto. try something like:
mkdir /mnt/windows
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows

you might have to do this as root. should work though.

as for the cdrom. make sure you're not in the cdrom directory.
try:
cd ~
eject

you might have to specify a drive if you have more than one cdrom drive.

hth
andy

oh btw the reason fdisk isn't working is because it isn't in your path. try:
/sbin/fdisk -l

Ste-

Thanks for all the help Andy everything worked

Cake Fiend

Make sure you mount the windows partition under the right filesystem, and mount it read-only if it's NTFS - Linux NTFS writing support is flaky and you can end up destroying data if something goes wrong.

Read the fstab man page for info on how to set it up so that you can mount your windows drive as a non-root user (and so you can mount it with a simple 'mount /mnt/windows' or whatever command).

Ste-

It's fat 32 and for the very purpose so that I can write to windows.
Thanks for the advice however.