Re: How to mount CDROM and CDRW?

[Russell]

Nicos Gollan wrote:

On Friday 14 February 2003 19:09, Carlos Jiménez wrote:

I just installed Debian woody and i've had problems to mount the CDROM
(hdb) and the CDRW (hdd). In the fstab file appears the following:
/dev/cdrom      /cdrom          iso9660 ro,user,noauto          0       0
Does it mean that CDROM is mounted? Shouldn't the mount point be in /mnt/?
And if it wasn't mounted, how do i mount it?

You mount it with 'mount /cdrom'. What this line does is:

- mount the device /dev/cdrom (should be a link to /dev/hdb)
- to /cdrom
- with filesystem type iso9660
- read-only, mountable by any user, not automatically at boot

If you want to access the second drive in a similar way, just add another line like this one with /dev/hdd as the device and another mountpoint (perhaps /cdrom2 or /mnt/cdrw or whatever, just remember to create the directory).

To make the CDRW writeable, you should read the CD writer how-tos, and maybe
a scsi how-to. ATAPI CD writers need ide-scsi and a couple of other things
installed, because ATAPI is scsi commands over an ATA(IDE) bus.


--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]