Newbie help with CD-RW

[jafo]

my ftsab is as follows:
/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda7 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
/mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat, dev=/dev/fd0 0 0
/mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660. dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0

I cannot access my cd-rw on my linux box. I'm running mandrake 7.0 on a soyo 6BA+IV mobo, geforce2
MX/MX 400, I tried all the mount commands in this post I've seen so far any help would be very much
appreciated ???

[cloverm]

Hello,

First take an advice: don't post the same question in multiple threads. It's not polite and it won't get you an answer any faster. But since you are new to Linux and this board, we'll forgive you this time. *

Now to your problem. Try to change the line in your fstab file to something like this:

/dev/cdrom */cdrom *iso9660 defaults,user,noauto,ro 0 *0

Then try to mount your cdrom. At the command prompt type:

mount /cdrom

[jafo]

I apologize for the extra post. I tried your suggestion and it says mount point does not exist... thx for the help

[cloverm]

I apologize for the extra post. I tried your suggestion and it says mount point does not exist... thx for the help

No problem. In that case you need to create it. As root type:

mkdir /cdrom

then try mounting again. We'll get this sucker working ...

[pbharris]

hello,
any chance you looked at this -> http://www.linuxjunior.org/cgi-bin/p...splay&id=8

[jafo]

tried it and now i get can't find /etc/cdrom in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab ???
man this is frustrating...

to pbharris:
no I didn't read it but I will try it and get back to you.

[cloverm]

tried it and now i get can't find /etc/cdrom in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab ???
man this is frustrating...

to pbharris:
no I didn't read it but I will try it and get back to you.

Sounds like you forgot to but the "/" in front of cdrom. Make sure you type it in just like this: mount /cdrom

[jafo]

I checked the command list in a terminal and there was a / in front of cdrom. forgive my ignorance but is there suppose to be something in that directory ? fstab?
I read the article and tried it and that didn't work either... :'(

[pbharris]

hello,
i see in you fstab there is a /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom - this should read /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom what happens when you type ls -l /dev/ | grep cdrom ?

also - i think you may wish to get rid of the supermount option and have this - i have heard iso9660 noauto,owner,ro,unhide i have heard bad things about supermount

[jafo]

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9may30 21:45 cdrom1->/dev/scdo
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9may30 21:45 cdrom2 ->/dev/scd1
lrw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 22, 0may5 1998 hdc

I put those commands in the fstab file with no cd-rom yet
thx for the time you spent trying to help me.