Accessing my CD-Drive

[W. Nick Dotson]

Actually, you helped me find the prize: just typing "/media/cdrom" did the trick.  I had tried, "mount /dev/cdrom /cd iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide" as in 
the example in the "man mount" page, and was told the CDROM was already mounted.  I'da never thunk it.

Nick (the continually Linux proplexed)

On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 18:09:03 -0500, David Bruzos wrote:

Also, usually your distro makes a mount point for you to make things 
easier.  Something like: /mnt/cdrom or /media/cdrom.  So, you can type:

mount /mnt/cdrom
or:
mount /media/cdrom

Don't forget to unmount the CD before you take it out!  Use the umount 
command to do this.

You can also do:

mount /dev/xxx /blah/blah

Where /dev/xxx is your actual device and /blah/blah is the place where 
you want to mount it.

Hope this helps!

David Bruzos

On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 05:43:07PM -0500, Terry D. Cudney wrote:
> Hi Nick,
> 
> 	Yes, you must "mount" the cd before you can access it..... somehting lie:
> 
> mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdX /mountpoint
> 
> where:
> hdX is the device where your CDROM is physically connected, and
> /mountpoint is a directory in your filesystem to mount the  CDROM device on...
> 
> 	see 'man mount' for details.
> 
> 	--hth
> 
> 	--terry
> 
> On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 04:36:59PM -0600, W. Nick Dotson wrote:
> > I've brailled and read Janina's advice to me about how to copy my "tar" and "gz" html document files.  However, I'm still missing something with respect 
to 
> > accessing my cd-rom drive.  I've tried such things as:
> > "/dev/fdc"
> > and
> > "cd /dev/fdc"
> > to no avail.  Do I have to "mount" the drive first, to be able to access it, and see thefile names?  Maybe,
> > "mount /dev/fdc"?
> > 
> > Nick
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
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