A very (newbie) question about mounting

ahmed_alzahrani · 09-10-2004, 11:48 PM

OK, I've tried mounting my cdrom and cd-rw with the very conventional way

mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom
mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrw

and the system answered that those are not block devices.

so I made 'ls -l /dev" to see if those files existed but they were not there.

my question is how am I going to mount my cdroms? (LG cdrom)
and how about usb (flash disks)? are they mountable or do I need something to be installed?

NOTE: running kernel 2.6.8.1

hitesh_linux · 09-10-2004, 11:58 PM

Which distribution are you using? Also, metion version number (i.e. 7.x.xxx)

--Hitesh

zz9pluralzalpha · 09-11-2004, 05:49 AM

Are they IDE devices? Are you running with SCSI emulation?

Assuming yes and no, the devices might be /dev/hd{a,b,c,d} depending on how they're wired up and what your BIOS settings are.

Unless you're using udev. I don't know anything about that.

--
Mike

Andrew Benton · 09-11-2004, 05:48 PM

Same with udev, this mounts a CD for me
su
password
mount /dev/hdd /home/andy/tmp

trickykid · 09-12-2004, 04:36 PM

Moved: Has nothing to do with LFS.

Ciccio · 09-12-2004, 06:16 PM

post your /etc/fstab