How to read files on cd
 

Hi all, I'm really sorry if this is a dumd question but the book I have does not discribe how to read the files or copy the files on my cd-rom to my hard drive. e.g.

I loaded a cd in my cd-rom drive and would like to copy it's contents to my /home/user account. Or how do I even view them without copying.

Just open up Konqueror (or click on the Home icon on the desktop), navigate to /mnt/cdrom and you should see the contents of the cd-rom.

Konqueror is much the same as windows explorer if you've had any experience with that.

Mandrake usually automounts cd's when you put them in the drive. and /mnt/cdrom is usually where Mandrake mounts your cd.

HTH
Baldrick

Dude, thank you. that just totally worked! Awsome!

I would type in mount /dev/cdrom in your command line that should do the trick

dont forget the umount
 

if u want to switch cds and then one in your cd drive is mounted u must unmount it. like this

umount /dev/cdrom or umount /mnt/cdrom

it took me a hour it figure it out but dont forget it