I am trying to mount a cdrom. First it gives me an error that it is missing from /etc/fstab and etc/mtab files so I attempted to add it. Here is what I am getting and what the files look like:


:~ # mount /mnt/cdrom
mount: mount point /mnt/cdrom does not exist
:~ # mount /cdrom
mount: mount point /cdrom does not exist
:~ # mount cdrom
mount: can't find cdrom in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab


:~ # cat /etc/fstab
/dev/sda3 / reiserfs defaults 1 1
/dev/sda1 /boot vfat defaults 0 0
/dev/sda2 swap swap pri=42 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0

:~ # cat /etc/mtab
/dev/sda3 / reiserfs rw 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
/dev/sda1 /boot vfat rw 0 0
shmfs /dev/shm shm rw 0 0
usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw 0 0
/dev/cdrom /cdrom rw 0 0
:~ #

try issuing "mount /dev/cdrom"

The "mount point <mount point> does not exist" messages usually mean exactly that - that the directory you're trying to mount to doesn't exist.

Your mtab file suggests that /dev/cdrom is mounted on /cdrom, which is a bit confusing, given the earlier output. Did you add that line to mtab yourself? I'm not sure, but I don't think you're supposed to do this, as mtab is supposed to show you devices that are currently mounted

"mount /dev/cdrom"
-bash: mount /dev/cdrom: No such file or directory


Yes I added that line thinking it needed something in there, so I just took that line out of mtab.


How can I set up a mount point. I know there is a disk in the drive. Everything I've read says to do mount /mnt/cdrom but it always says there is no mount point???

You use mkdir to create the directory that you want to mount to, e.g. "mkdir /mnt/cdrom". However, it seems that the /dev/cdrom link doesn't exist, given the output of your last post. Have you ever been able to mount a CD-ROM under Linux? Do you know which IDE controller the CD-ROM is connected to and whether it is set as master or slave?

suse auto-mounts (at least 9.1 and above) check your /media/cd-rom for your data. if you type mount what does it give you?