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Master of Reality:
the cdrom need to be mounted after you put the cd in, right?

if i need to mount my cdrom would i use "mount/dev/cdroms/cdrom0" in the command line?
or mount/cdrom0.
or would i do "mount -a" and mount everything mentioned in fstab?

well, i tried both of those: mount/cdrom0 (or cdrom1) said that it could not find in fstab or mtab. i looked at mtab in konqueror (it wn't let me see fstab or mtab in the console, even after i su in as root) and found that it did not have any of my cdroms there. (but they are listed under /dev/cdroms/ and /mnt/.

when i tell it to mount/dev/cdroms/(cdrom0 or cdrom1) it says that the file or directory not found.

what do these mean? under fstab it says:
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto user ...
/dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom2 auto user ...
i only have 2 cdroms chouldnt they be cdrom0 and cdrom1...no cdrom2

got any comments on my insanity and "newbism" about this?

[ March 19, 2002: Message edited by: Druaga ]

[ March 19, 2002: Message edited by: Druaga ]

[ March 19, 2002: Message edited by: Druaga ]

Centurian:
Hey,

To mount use mount /mnt/cdrom.

To unmount use umount /mnt/cdrom

Alternatively you can also use usermount. It is a cool graphical tool that does a great job of handling this.

You can find it at /usr/bin/usermount

Master of Reality:
*sigh* i tried /mnt/cdrom...

but that usermount thing is perfect for what i currently need

[ March 19, 2002: Message edited by: Druaga ]

Centurian:
Hey,

Cool

jtpenrod:
I can't be sure here, but I seem to be seeing a lot of mistakes being made here. With my Mandrake and Red Hat systems, the way I mount CDs (or floppies for that matter) is to su to root, then:

# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt   To later unmount the CD:
# umount /mnt

That whitespace absolutely needs to be in there as BASH uses whitespace as a delimiter. Also, you can't mount anything unless you give it a mount point. Otherwise, all you get is errors. Any way, that's how I handle these operations in Linux: from the command line.

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[ March 20, 2002: Message edited by: jtpenrod ]

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