Accessing my CD-Drive

[Sean McMahon]

Wait a second, I need some clarification, whenever I play a cd I just stick it
in then take it out when I'm done.  I do no mount or umount.  Why isit I don't
do any of this and when is this necessary.  In my case, I can only read not
write to cdes.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Bruzos" <david at bruzos.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 4:09 PM
Subject: Re: Accessing my CD-Drive


> 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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