Subject: Re: cd-rom issues
From: Locke Demosthenes (z_i_m@hotmail.com)
Date: Tue Oct 15 2002 - 13:51:22 AKDT
Is there any way I could maybe modify the /etc/fstab so that I could just
type somthing like "mount /dev/cdrom" instead of that huge command? Or
perhaps make an alies (I don't know if I spelled that right...) ?
>From: Jon Reynolds <jonr@destar.net>
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>On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 13:11, Locke Demosthenes wrote:
>
> > I can't get my cdrom drive to mount! I tried "mount /dev/cdrom" and was
> > told that there was no entry in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab.
>
>Your close. :) you have to tell your system which device '/dev/cdrom'
>and where to mount that device '/some/dir' usually '/mnt/cdrom'. If that
>directory doesn't exist just create it with the 'mkdir' command. You can
>also specify the filesystem type for your cdrom. So, the command you
>would want to try is:
>
>mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
>
>the '-t' means which filesystem to use, the iso9660 is the filesystem to
>use. the '/dev/cdrom' is the device and the '/mnt/cdrom' is where you
>want to mount it.
>
>After issuing this command cd into /mnt/cdrom and there is your cdrom.
>If you don't have cdrom inside your /mnt directory create it.
>
>Hope that helps,
>
>Jon
>
>
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