You need to check your /etc/fstab and see what your seetings are for the
/cdrom. If your your slackware install went anything like mine you have a
line in fstab that reads:
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 auto,ro 0 0
What this means is device /dev/cdrom will be mounted as read only
automatically (at boot time) if there is a data CD in the drive at point
point /cdrom in your file tree.
Ignore the two zeros, thats default and you don't need to touch those. The
iso9660 is the file system type.
If your fstab entry looks like the above, then one of two things may be
happening. 1. There is no CD in the drive at boot time so the CD-ROM is not
mounted, or the "auto" is replaced with "noauto" which means the system
doesn't try to mount the CD-ROM at boot time. In either case you should be
able to mount the CD-ROM manually by making sure a data CD is in the drive
and typing
mount /cdrom
Caveat: you can't mount a music CD, but you don't need to mount to play a
music CD using workbone, etc.
If you don't have an entry in your fstab that looks like the above, you will
either need one, or you can mount manually using
mount /dev/cdrom -t iso9660 /cdrom
Check out "man fstab" and "man mount"
Good luck
-----Original Message-----
From: Ard Righ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thursday, September 23, 1999 1:24 AM
Subject: Mounting CD-ROMs
Hello :o)
I have Slackware 4 installed on my computer, and it seems to create a
/cdrom directory when installed.
Now, I can't access my cdrom from this location, so I'm assuming it isn't
getting mounted at startup like everything else.
Do I need to change the modules settings to make Slackware detect my CD-
ROM, and mount it ? Do I have to mount the CD-ROM manually ?
What commands would one use to mount a cd-rom ? I assume changing
disks in the cd drive would mean umounting and mounting ?
Please help :o)
Ard Righ
S' Rioghal Mo Dhream!
