how to mount a cd-rw/dvd-rom drive

[Scott Berry]

Here is what I get when I do mount /dev/hdc /dev/mnt:

mount: mount point /dev/mnt does not exist
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Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Greshko" <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com>
To: "For users of Fedora" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 9:32 PM
Subject: Re: how to mount a cd-rw/dvd-rom drive


> Scott,
>> The kernel probes it and find it as you said in /var/log/dmesg.  Then I
>> go to mount it with mount /dev/hdc1 as the kernel probe shows to
>> /dev/mnt and it says it needs to kinow the file system type which I do
>> not know for dvd media.  As a side note this is a brand new drive.
>
>>> mount /dev/hda /dev/mnt
>
> In my example, did you see a "1"?
>
> A cd or dvd normally doesn't have a file system in the HD sense.
>
> Try
>
> mount /dev/hdc /dev/mnt
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