Mounting CDROM

[Matt Alexander]

"hdc" means that you've got an IDE device (your cdrom) plugged into the
secondary IDE controller and set as the Master.  /dev/cdrom is just a
symlink to /dev/hdc (in your case).  So check that /dev/cdrom exists, and
if it doesn't, create it like this:

ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom

Then mount it like this:

mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

If that works, then you can add this to your /etc/fstab to be able to
mount your cdrom like this in the future:

mount /mnt/cdrom


On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Tom Achtenberg wrote:

> I ran the commands listed below and it still does not mount.  I looked in
> the hardware browser and Linux is listing the cdrom drive as /dev/hdc.  When
> I change the etc/fstab file to show dev/hdc I no longer get the fail about
> reading etc/fstab on boot up however when I try to mount the drive I get an
> incorrect fs or argument error.  Any ideas on how to get Linux to see my CD
> as dev/cdrom instead of dev/hdc?  It is an ide cd drive.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Craig
> White
> Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 10:07 AM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: Mounting CDROM
>
>
> Tom Achtenberg wrote:
> >
> > I just upgraded my RH 7.0 to 7.2.  Now when the computer is booting I get
> > the following error:  "etc/fstab Cannot Stat /dev/cdrom  No such file or
> > directory.  The file is there and I have set the permissions to 777.  The
> CD
> > worked fine for doing the upgrade but cannot be accessed from Linux.  What
> > should I do?
> >
> > Tom Achtenberg
> >
> ----------
> # depmod -ae
> # insmod cdrom
> # modprobe ide-cd
>
> Or upgrade to latest kernel - 2.4.9-?
>
> Craig
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