/cdrom is one of the customary mount points for a CD-ROM drive (the other is
/mnt/cdrom), but you do have to mount it. You do it (as root) with a command
like
mount /dev/hdc /cdrom
replacing the "hdc" with the actual device that represents your CD-ROM
(watch the boot messages for this if you don't already know where it is).
You don't mount the *drive* though; you mount a CD that is in the drive (not
a quibble -- you can't mount an empty drive, for example).
You can add a line to /etc/fstab that (1) attempts to mount the drive when
the system boots (it can succeed only if you have a CD with a mountable
filesystem in the drive) and (2) lets non-root users mount and umount the
drive. "man fstab" will give you the needed details.
BTW, the same general rules apply to floppies. For them, the traditional
mount points are /floppy, /mnt/floppy, or just /mnt .
At 05:25 PM 9/23/99 +1200, you wrote:
> 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 ?
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