cds not mounting

[mojo jojo]

Hey ;D

everytime I want to install a game like UT or NWN it keeps asking me to mount the cd but I already did that "mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom" but thats doesnt seem to work > to when I "umount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom" all I get is no drives mounted WTF! ??? > ??? >

TIA
Michael

put something like this in your /etc/fstab:

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


to mount it: simply type mount /mnt/cdrom
to unmount: umount /mnt/cdrom

[mojo jojo]

WTF!! still does it > > >

here is my /etc/fstab

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
# $Header: /home/cvsroot/gentoo-src/rc-scripts/etc/fstab,v 1.14 2003/10/13 20:03:38 azarah Exp $
#
# noatime turns off atimes for increased performance (atimes normally aren't
# needed; notail increases performance of ReiserFS (at the expense of storage
# efficiency).  It's safe to drop the noatime options if you want and to
# switch between notail and tail freely.

# <fs>                  <mountpoint>    <type>          <opts>                  <dump/pass>

# NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts.
/dev/hda1               /boot           ext2            noauto,noatime          1 1
/dev/hda6               /               xfs             noatime                 0 0
/dev/hda5               none            swap            sw                      0 0
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0      /mnt/cdrom      iso9660         udf,iso9660,noauto,owner,ro     0 0
#/dev/fd0               /mnt/floppy     auto            noauto                  0 0

# NOTE: The next line is critical for boot!
none                    /proc           proc            defaults                0 0

# glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for
# POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink).
# (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will
#  use almost no memory if not populated with files)

[BurntAsh]

is /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 the real device name or is it /dev/cdrom like you said earlier?

[mojo jojo]

I dunno /dev/cdrom points to /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 so it shouldn't matter right ???

[BurntAsh]

i would type 'dmesg | less' to find out what your cdrom device is and then add it to the fstab as...

/dev/xxx /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro,user 0 0

and also make sure you made the directory /mnt/cdrom for to mount to.

I would also try what shebang said when you mount

[shebang]

how about something like this:

mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

For Slack it is /dev/hdc for mine..

[trickster]

If you are using SCSI emulation, it might be sr0 or sg0

[shebang]

[quote author=trickster link=board=2;threadid=9170;start=0#msg82889 date=1083975530]
If you are using SCSI emulation, it might be sr0 or sg0
[/quote]

thanks! i need to keep a note of this in the future too! *****

Mojo Jojo: Also try:

mount -t auto /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

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[mojo jojo]

Shit nothing wants to work > > >

anyone wanna ssh into my pc