CD Mount problem
 

Hi,

When I try to mount a CD-ROM I get the following error running under KDE:

"mnt/cdrom is a file but a directory was expected...."

under GNOME: I don't get the error, but I'm not able to browse the contents of CD, because mnt/cdrom (which is a directory) is shown as a 0 bytes "file" (when listing contents of /mnt directory after mounting)

Entry in etc/fstab is:

/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide

Anybody can help me?

just a hunch
 

This is just a hunch (being a newbie myself...

should that 'unhide' be there?

Also try to remove the FILE named 'cdrom' from your /mnt/ directory and create a directory called cdrom...

in your fstab file, make sure that it is mounted to the /mnt/cdrom (the dir you created) directory...

Just a hunch... but give it a try

mkdir /mnt/cdrom


mount /dev/cdrom

try :

/dev/cdrom /cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0

check out 'man fstab' and 'info fstab' for more on what all that junk means.

If mount is saying that a file called /mnt/cdrom already exists then the above will fail as you'll be trying to create a dir with the same name. You'll want to put rmdir /mnt/cdrom infront of DavidPhillips' commands.

cheers

Jamie...

First of all , thanks everybody !

I'll try isajera's entry in fstab.

For the rest, strange thing is that /mnt/cdrom IS a directory, but after mount command "turns into" a o bytes file when browsing /mnt directory with ls.

I've also tried, removing directory an creating it again or using another "mount point" but with same results.

Well:

I tried

/dev/cdrom /cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0

but failed again.....

So, I decided to begin from scratch by installing another RH version, and to my surprise with Red Hat 6.2 I was able to mount and browse CD.

Another thing to point out, is that when installing RH 7.1 I was forced to make a "Hard Disk" installation. Although, booting from CD-ROM was successful, installation from "Local CDROM" reported something like: "I can't find RedHat images on any Local CDROM".........


Any suggestions ?

hmmm... what kind of cdrom drive do you have?

My CD-ROM drive is an old 4X Creative.

Finally, I did a small investment and bought a newer CD-ROM drive (another Creative) but 52X.

I replaced the old one, and everything started working fine !!

Seems RH71 doesn't support some old hardware....