topic Re: Mounting cd-rom problems in Operating System - HP-UX

Mounting cd-rom problems

Natalie Hoover — Tue, 29 Oct 2002 17:17:38 GMT

I am trying to mount an IDE cd-rom drive and whenever I try to mount, I get a comment "mount ignored or not found in etc/fstab" where = the several different paths I have tried with /dev/dsk... Any suggestions?

Re: Mounting cd-rom problems

Bill Hassell — Tue, 29 Oct 2002 17:38:56 GMT

There are always 2 parts to the mount command: source and destination. If you type:

mount /dev/dsk/

mount has no idea where so it looks in /etc/fstab and if /dev/dsk. is not there, it gives you this error message. Instead, do this:

mkdir /cdrom

(might already be there)

mount /dev/dsk/ /cdrom

Re: Mounting cd-rom problems

Natalie Hoover — Tue, 29 Oct 2002 18:06:09 GMT

Thanks for the help, as that did work. I changed to the cd_drive directory where I mounted to and saw all of the files in there... Am now having problems copying them. I am just saying cp and am afraid that the 12-letter file name (which is truncated now on the UNIX machine) will not copy because of the length and truncation of the name. Does it matter if the cd is made in windows with windows names? I'm now shortening the names to try and do the same as before.

Re: Mounting cd-rom problems

Robert-Jan Goossens — Tue, 29 Oct 2002 19:18:50 GMT

Hi Natalie,

seems you have troubles reading the cdrom.

umount /cdrom
mount -F cdfs -o cdcase /dev/dsk/c?t?d? /cdrom

Try to read it again.

Robert-Jan.

Re: Mounting cd-rom problems

Natalie Hoover — Tue, 29 Oct 2002 19:35:35 GMT

Thank you both for your help. Things are up and working now. I really appreciate your quick replies to my question.

Natalie