About 2 months ago I installed Ubuntu 14.04 on a win vista machine that was lying a little idle. One reason for this was the large screen attached to it and my failing eyesight at the time. I now know that was a little futile of a reason. My eyesight deteriorated significantly afterwards to the point of having an op to reattach my retina and I am now on the long recovery path. I have been experimenting with all sorts of accessibility aids with little success and lots of frustration. I explored Ubuntu like distros aimed at those with poor eyesight. It was then I discovered my previous installation had not recognised my twin DVD drives as I was unable to burn the ISO image after download. Early research suggested an edit to /etc/fstab might cure the problem so i added two lines. See this:- Myfstab # etc/fstab: static file system information. # # Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a # device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices # that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5). # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> # / was on /dev/sda5 during installation UUID=76577e65-1d5c-4447-8e5a-df0b3df73d0c / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1 # swap was on /dev/sda6 during installation UUID=76bf638d-db15-4c38-a1ec-659b5b5fd5dd none swap sw 0 0 /dev/frw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0 /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0 /dev/sr1 /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0 Now the floppy drive entry is really weird as the system does not have one! The hard drive is a SATA drive. If I insert USB stick the system picks it up and I can see files. The DVD drives work OK in Win Vista . Indeed I can boot from them before GRUB and the MBR kicks in. Any help to fix would be most appreciated.