Mount CD

sonic04002 · 10-30-2005, 08:06 PM

How do you mount a cd-rw/dvd-rw drive? I'm on fedora core 4. Thanks laters.

mrchaos · 10-30-2005, 09:21 PM

post your /etc/fstab first of all.... the cdrom could be under any number of names (aka /dev/hdc, /dev/cdrom, /dev/dvd)

as for mounting, you simply run (in command prompt)

Code:

mount /dev/______

and

Code:

umount /dev/______

to unmount it

gnubuddy · 10-30-2005, 10:07 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by mrchaos
post your /etc/fstab first of all.... the cdrom could be under any number of names (aka /dev/hdc, /dev/cdrom, /dev/dvd)

as for mounting, you simply run (in command prompt)

Code:

mount /dev/______

and

Code:

umount /dev/______

to unmount it

I noticed that the following often works for me:

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mount /mnt/______

Code:

umount /mnt/______

of course ___ is the name of the cd already in /mnt/. Also, fyi, you might have to be logged in as root.

mrchaos · 10-30-2005, 10:39 PM

yeah, the system draws a systemlink between the two when you use mount... so you can do that interchangeably

sonic04002 · 10-31-2005, 05:13 AM

How do you know what the name of the drive is?

mrchaos · 10-31-2005, 06:54 AM

sonic04002, post your /etc/fstab file first. we can't tell you anything until you do that.

sonic04002 · 10-31-2005, 10:37 AM

How do you do that? I'm pretty new to linux.

mrchaos · 10-31-2005, 11:28 AM

ok, open a terminal window (xterm or konsole works just fine), and type in:

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gedit /etc/fstab

if you don't have gedit and it returns an error, type:

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pico /etc/fstab

and if you don't have pico, we go to the last choice which is:

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vi /etc/fstab

everyone has vi, it's the default viewer for unix systems

copy and paste the results here in this forum

sonic04002 · 10-31-2005, 01:44 PM

# This file is edited by fstab-sync - see 'man fstab-sync' for details
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
/dev/shm /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sys /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrecorder auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0

mrchaos · 10-31-2005, 03:29 PM

there you go! now to mount your cdrom, you must type in

Code:

mount /dev/hdc

and your mount point will be in /media/cdrecorder.

oh, if you don't like /dev/hdc, you can always symlink (ln -s) another device to /dev/hdc. For example, if you want to mount /dev/cdrom instead you would

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ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom

then change the line in your fstab from /dev/hdc /media/cdrecorder auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed 0 0 to /dev/cdrom /media/cdrecorder auto pamconsole,exec,noauto,managed

one more thing, do you only have one cd/dvd drive on your computer?

alaskazimm · 10-31-2005, 03:56 PM

Also, if you are just trying to use your cd-recorder to burn cds, you don't need to mount it. Just fire up your burning program (k3b, xcdroast, etc) and use it in the normal fashion. The only time you will need to mount the cd drive is if you need to read data from it or use it as an audio device. At lest I think you need to mount to listen to audio.

Hope this helps some more

sonic04002 · 10-31-2005, 04:57 PM

I'm trying to install a game that i burned the iso of. I burned the iso in k3b. I tried mounting but this is what I got.

Code:

[Tai@localhost ~]$ su
Password:
[root@localhost Tai]# ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom
ln: `/dev/cdrom': File exists
[root@localhost Tai]# mount /dev/hdc
mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: /dev/hdc already mounted or /media/cdrecorder busy
mount: according to mtab, /dev/hdc is already mounted on /media/cdrecorder
[root@localhost Tai]# umount /dev/hdc
[root@localhost Tai]# mount /dev/hdc
mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only
[root@localhost Tai]#

mrchaos · 10-31-2005, 08:01 PM

all of that is ok.
change the cdrom line of your fstab to this:

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/dev/hdc        /media/cdrecorder      iso9660     users,unhide,noauto,ro   0   0

iso9660 is your standard (jolliett or whatever) cd file system.

Code:

block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only

this was outputted b/c the fstab did not have read-only specified nder user-flags. In the user,unhide,noauto,ro section of what I posted, the "ro" stands for read-only, and will tell the computer that you cannot actively change the data on this storage media (don't worry, k3b and nero will still work fine). I think you mounted your cd-rom correctly though. Don't expect the window to pop up like it does in windows, you actually have to cd (change directories) to /media/cdrecorder and that will be your cd-rom drive!

as for the symlink. don't worry about it, I use /dev/hdc as my default dvd-burner path... it's easier to remember

sonic04002 · 10-31-2005, 09:04 PM

Well see I'm trying to access the setup.exe in one of the cds thru the terminal with Cedega. So I need to know the directories and all. It sort of worked and then it said that it could not find the file /dev/cdrom/setup.exe which is where it was. Sorry this is a pain to help me with.

mrchaos · 10-31-2005, 09:11 PM

aha! cedega! so then you must have also downloaded point2play? the gui for cedega?

remember, you don't have /dev/cdrom in your fstab, so it doesn't know what to do with your request for /dev/cdrom (unless /dev/cdrom is already symlinked to your /dev/hdc) if you want to use /dev/cdrom cdrom path you will need to change /dev/hdc to /dev/cdrom in your fstab.

also, /dev/cdrom/setup.exe is not a valid path. once you have mounted the device, the work path is /media/cdrecorder/setup.exe. /dev/cdrom is a file (linux treats drivers as files) not a directory.