mount error

[Bob McClure Jr]

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.

- There must be an entry in /etc/fstab that looks something like this:

/dev/cdrom      /mnt/cdrom     iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0

As for burning CDs, especially Linux ISOs, see

http://www.rhil.net/docs/faq.html#making_cds

Cheers,
-- 
Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
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