[newbie] mount problem

[Wei Wang]

I know this is too naive. But I got confused of different helps I found on the internet.   I get error message when I do mount /dev/cdrom mount: can't find /dev/cdrom in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab   mount /mnt/cdrom gives out: /dev/hdc: Input/output error mount: I could not determine the filesystem type and non was specified   /etc/fstab read: /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0   /var/log/messages reads: hdc: DV22E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive   One of the helps I found on the internet told me to delete /dev/cdrom and do ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom But I kept rm /dev/cdrom and it doesn't go away. It cannot be deleted. What should I do?   The other help told me to mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/cdrom /cdrom I don't know what that means but it gives an error saying: mount point /cdrom does not exist.   Any hint what I should do? Many thanks.