Lee wrote: <snip> > Perchance you would like to enlighten us heathens as to the proper > command to mount the CDROM and CDRW. I've tried mount -t fstab > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom and got fstab not supported.
The syntax is: mount -t filesystemtype /dev/hd? /mnt/mountpoint. You can't use fstab as a filesystem type. It's a configuration file. Substitute sd for hd if you're using SCSI drives. >Mount -t vfat /dev/cdrom /mnt/dev get /dev not a block device. Is there really an entry in your /mnt directory called dev? Or is it actually /mnt/cdrom? >Try mount auto /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom get a shopping list of options. Pick one of them > mount -t auto /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom and i get the not valid block > device. If I go to free disk under the system menu the cdroms are listed > as /dev/cdrom and /dev/cdrom1 with a mount point of /mnt/cdrom and a > driver of iso9660. You're confusing a filesystem type and a driver (better known as a module in linux) iso9660, vfat, ext2, xfs, etc. are filesystem types. You see these when you issue the mount command by itself. i82365,soundcore, 3c59x, are modules (drivers). You see these when you issue the lsmod command by itself. What is the output of "dmesg | grep hd" and your /etc/fstab? >From mine: [root@charliebrown /root]# dmesg | grep hd ide0: BM-DMA at 0x0860-0x0867, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0x0868-0x086f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio hda: IBM-DCXA-210000, ATA DISK drive hdc: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-C2202, ATAPI CDROM drive hda: IBM-DCXA-210000, 9590MB w/420kB Cache, CHS=1222/255/63, UDMA hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 > As you can see, hdc is my cdrom drive. So it would be "mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom" The relevant entry in /etc/fstab shows: /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto,exec 0 0 So what's /dev/cdrom linked to? [root@charliebrown /root]# ls -l /dev/cdrom lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Mar 30 2000 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdc So /dev/cdrom points to /dev/hdc, and /etc/fstab shows /dev/cdrom's mountpoint is /mnt/cdrom. So the cd is mountable as /mnt/cdrom. <snip> It should really be as simple as making sure there's a readable cd in the drive and doing a "mount /mnt/cdrom" Or even "mount -t iso9660 /dev/hd? /mnt/cdrom" though iso9660 is the default for cdroms. From the mount manpage: The type iso9660 is the default. If no -t option is given, or if the auto type is specified, the superblock is probed for the filesystem type. HTH- -- Andrew Mathews ------------------------------------------------------------ 2:45pm up 12 days, 18:20, 9 users, load average: 1.13, 1.07, 1.05 ------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.