Re: Mounting CD-ROMs :(

[Christopher Curtis <ccurtis ee fit edu>]

On Thu, 13 Aug 1998, Paul Tomblin wrote:

> Quoting Christopher Curtis (ccurtis@ee.fit.edu):
> > > Shouldn't that be
> > > mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /mnt/tmp
> > 
> > It doesn't really matter - it knows what to do (or so I thought).  In all
> 
> It only knows what to do if you have it in your fstab already.  Otherwise it
> tries to mount it as -t ext2.

Maybe true, but it doesn't stop there.  I've never (that I recall) had to
explicitly say "iso9660" when mounting a CD, under Intel or Alpha (well,
okay, maybe back in the 1.2 days, but not recently).  And I obviously
don't have an fstab entry for /mnt/tmp as a CD...

> > CDs, no Linux or CD-Rs yet though.  They all have the same problem.  Has
> > anyone been able to mount a SCSI CD?
> 
> Every time I boot, I mount whatever CD is in my scd0 drive, which is
> usually either "Java In a Nutshell" or "Just Java", neither of which is
> Linux specific. 

Suppose I could coax you into sendmail me your .config?  What kernel?  I
assume you're not doing this with loadable modules...

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