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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