Re: Can't mount cdrom

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Jared L. Black wrote:
> I have RH8.0, which has X-CD-ROAST (ver0.98alpha9) as a CD burner.  I
> used it one time to create a data CD and it worked OK except somehow it
> took the /dev/cdrom line out of the fstab file.  Now I can't get any CD
> to load in the drive.  
>
> If I do a mount /mnt/cdrom command (as root) I get the error: 
>
> mount: mount point /mnt/cdrom does not exist
>
> Also, when I boot up, I get the line
>
> updating /etc/fstab cannot stat /dev/cdrom: no such file or directory
> [failed]
>
>
> I edited the fstab file and put the correct cdrom line back, but that
> didn't help.
>
> The line is (some spaces deleted to fit on one line in this message)
>
> /dev/cdrom     /mnt/cdrom  iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
>  
> Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

Make sure the directory /mnt/cdrom exists:

	# ls -l /mnt

If it doesn't exist, create it (as root):

	# mkdir -p -m 755 /mnt/cdrom

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