Re: cannot mount cdrom

[Stephen Kuhn <skuhn telpacific com au>]

On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 11:13, Thomas Goode wrote:
> I am completely new to Unix and I am having trouble accessing my
> cdrom. I am not sure what the problem is; I get a cdrom is not a valid
> block device message when I try to mount it.
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> I am using redhat linux v 7.1; any help would really be appreciated
> 
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> Tom

Tom, your best bet would be to open a terminal, make sure you have the
CD in the CDROM drive, and type:

mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

...if there's an error, you'll see it spitting it out right then and
there...

...also, you might want to check which "device" your CDROM is - for
instance, if it's connected as the slave to the master, and you've only
got one hard drive, it's probably linked to /dev/hdb - which, if that's
the case, you can then type:

mount /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom

...and to unmount it,

umount /dev/hdb

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