If you simply want to mount the drive to view the contents of a CD, you
don't even need to append anything to your lilo.conf file. However, if you
want to write to the drive, you will need to add the append statement to
your lilo.conf file that John mentioned.
If you simply want to mount and view the CD that's in your CD-RW drive:
1) first type "dmesg" to see which device it's using (I'll assume hdb)
2) "cd /mnt"
3) "mkdir cdrw" (this creates a directory called /mnt/cdrw)
4) "mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrw"
5) Now view the contents of the /mnt/cdrw directory and you should see the
contents of the CD that's in your CD-RW drive.
HTH,
Matt
>From: John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [newbie] CD Writer
>Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 10:37:14 -0500
>
>On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, you wrote:
> > Does anyone know how to setup a CD Writer so it can be mounted on my
>linux
> > machine? I'm using Linux Mandrake.
> >
>IDE? If so, try the following in your /etc/lilo.conf:
>append="hd(x)=ide-scsi"
>and replace (x) with the letter of your ATAPI CDR (i.e. hda
>for primary master, hdb for primary slave, hdc for
>secondary master and hdd for secondary slave.)
> John
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