I'm trying to mount a cdrom and I get the following error. My question is how I can get do this properly. Thanks in advance for the help:

mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: you must specify the filesystem type


By the way, I am able to mount other cd's. The OS mounts those cdroms automatically. Also, I've tried:

mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /cdrom

But then I get the error:

mkdir cdrom
mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /cdrom


Thanks in advance.

It isn't an audio CD is it? Those can't be mounted.

It's just your run of the mill CD-ROM. Pardon my ignorance but aren't all CD-ROMs both data and audio CD-Roms?

There are such as thing as mixed mode CDs that contain both audio and data but it is not the norm. True that iso9660 is the default for run of the mill for data CDs but not all. You will have to tell us exactly what you mean by run of the mill. Is it audio, purchased, something you burned? If it was something you burned then tell us how and using what OS? If you burned it using Vista then it could be a packet writing CD which is a UDF filesystem. And there are several versions of packet writing. Or is it really a DVD?

BTW what version of linux are you running?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_CD