Mounting cd-rom problems

[Natalie Hoover]

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?

[Bill Hassell · Accepted solution]

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

[Natalie Hoover]

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.

[Robert-Jan Goossens]

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.

[Natalie Hoover]

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

Natalie