On Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 11:53:47PM -0500, Steve Philp wrote:
> Tim Wojtaszek wrote:
> >
> > When ever I try to access my cd rom, i get an error message:
> >
>file:/dev/cdrom%3a%20Input/output%20error%0Amoun...ou%20must%20specify%the%20filesystem%20type%0A.
> >
> > how do I do that.
>
> Is that a data CD in the drive? By default, Mandrake is setup to
> auto-detect the filesystem type for the CD. Check /etc/fstab and see if
> it looks like this:
>
> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0
> 0
> ^^^^
>
> The underlined part there should match.
or, if this doesn't work, use iso9660 instead of auto.
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