I get this message eveytime I try to run either of my CDROM's can anybody help me fix this? I am running linux JAMD.

post up your /etc/fstab

and then look thru your /dev directory and find where cdrom actually is......
on Slackware /dev/cdrom is a symlink to /dev/hdc usually!! not always,
see if you have the symlink and find where it points to.

Sorry this is my forst time running Linux and I am a newbie and I do not know where to start

It sound to me like linux is trying to mount (make avaliable) the CD-ROM and is looking in the wrong place. We need to see your fstab.

Open the file /etc/fstab and copy & paste its contens here.

LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0

Thanks for taking the time to help

How are you trying to mount the drive? As the other posters suspected, the method you are using looks for the CD-ROM at /misc/cdrom, when it is in fact at /mnt/cdrom.

So all that is required is changing "misc" to "mnt", but without knowing how you're doing this, we couldn't tell you more, unless another JAMD user happens by who knows.