Debian CD Mount and copying files from CD-Rom

[Thomas D. Tate]

On Fri, 2002-09-13 at 09:47, Miles Beck wrote:
> 
> What is the proper way to mount a cd-rom in Debian?
> 
> I did "mount /dev/cdrom", then did a "df" and it showed the cd-rom in the 
> listing. But then when I tried to "cd /dev/cdrom" I could not get to the 
> device.
> 
> Thanks

The file /dev/cdrom is just the file that represents the CD drive
itself. When you mount it, you're really mounting /dev/cdrom to /cdrom
-- so all of the files and directories will show up in /cdrom, not
/dev/cdrom.

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Thomas "Mondoshawan" Tate
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