mount error
Pedro Morales
pmor82 at yahoo.com
Tue May 18 14:58:50 UTC 2004
--- Bob McClure Jr <robertmcclure at earthlink.net>
wrote:
> On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 05:47:09AM -0700, Pedro
> Morales wrote:
> > im pretty sure it's a simple and noobish question,
> but
> > im trying to mount a cdrom I burned at home, and I
> get
> > the error: "mount: not a directory", so im
> wondering
> > do I have to copy everything inside a directory
> then
> > burn the directory?
> >
> > im using my "mount /mnt/cdrom" in my root shell.
>
> Two things are required for that to work:
>
> - /mnt/cdrom must exist as a directory. "ls -ld
> /mnt/cdrom" to see if
> it's there. "mkdir /mnt/cdrom" if it's not.
it's there
> - There must be an entry in /etc/fstab that looks
> something like this:
>
> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660
> noauto,owner,ro 0 0
I have
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660,
noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
and the cd im trying to read is the vmware I
downloaded, so the cd has only files no directories at
all.
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