topic Re: mount a cdrom in Operating System - Linux

mount a cdrom

eran maor — Mon, 30 Apr 2001 11:30:11 GMT

Hi

i install redhat 7 few month ago .
now i have problem with mounting the cd-rom
i dont know very much linux so i m asking how to mount the cdrom .
i know that in hp-ux is mount /dev/rmt/cXtXdX

how do you need to do it in linux ?

Re: mount a cdrom

Alexander M. Ermes — Mon, 30 Apr 2001 11:38:20 GMT

Hi there.
mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /directory

If you have an entry in /etc/fstab, this should be enough :

mount /dev/cdrom

Rgds
Alexander M. Ermes

Re: mount a cdrom

Vincenzo Restuccia — Mon, 30 Apr 2001 11:46:07 GMT

mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom,also check iocon in desktop.

Re: mount a cdrom

eran maor — Mon, 30 Apr 2001 11:47:26 GMT

Hi Alex

i did the command that you told me but when i m doing the command i m getting this error :
"the kernel doesnt Recognize /dev/dcrom as a block device . mybe insmod driver ?

and the os is 6.2 not 7.0

Re: mount a cdrom

Vincenzo Restuccia — Mon, 30 Apr 2001 11:57:16 GMT

Try mount -a.

Re: mount a cdrom

Calvin Dodge — Mon, 30 Apr 2001 16:31:12 GMT

Your reply mentions a "/dev/dcrom".

Is that what you used? It should be "/dev/cdrom".

What's the result of:

ls -l /dev/cdrom

Re: mount a cdrom

Mark Fenton — Mon, 30 Apr 2001 23:52:43 GMT

Unless you have done something wierd in your installation of RH 7.0, the cdrom should mount easily with:
# mount /dev/cdrom

shouldn't need any other arguements or additions. The line in /etc/fstab should contain the proper verbage for handling the filesystem type and other such.

If you added the cd after install (but then how did you install?) use redhat's kudzu to detect and configure the cdrom. (Actually, this should automatically happen at bootup, again, unless you set your system up strangely...)

Best of luck

Re: mount a cdrom

Nick Fenwick — Tue, 01 May 2001 07:24:24 GMT

Just to stick my oar in... I found that I had huge problems _ejecting_ a cdrom from my freshly installed Redhat 7.0 system. I found the following two points are important to remember:
1/ always unmount your cdrom ('umount /dev/cdrom' as root?) before trying to eject it.
2/ always 'cd' out of any directory in a cdrom's mount path e.g. if you have an xterm whose current directory is /dev/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS, and minimise the xterm window and forget about it, you'll have a merry old dance trying to eject the cdrom from another xterm.

NB I'm pretty sure the 'cdrom' icon on the desktop is a clever little tool that will allow you to get around some of these issues, and jolly good that is too, but I always prefer working from anonymous little xterms and need to know the longwinded way of typing commands in :)