I received a CD from a relative with digital pictures from a recent reunion. When I put it in the CD-ROM, it tries to AUTOPLAY, but nothing shows up as in Windows. If I go to the CD-ROM 1, it says the following:
mount: /dev/hdc is not a block device
My book says the files should be detected and read when the CD-ROM begins, but I'm confused. If I go to F-Spot and try to Import the pictures, of course I get the same message as above. Linux CE (7.04), Thanks. (PS I don't have Windows any more, thanks to this site!!)

Picture cds should work similar to music cds in that they are not mounted as a data cd would be mounted.

Start your graphics viewer (gwenview, pixie, or some other). Go to File - Open... and navigate through the directory tree to the cd drive and open it for viewing.

Thanks BigRig...I use GThumb. When I go to my CD-RW/DVD+/-RW Drive, it says "Can't Mount UDF Volume". The Details say it is write protected. If I use my CD-ROM drive, it still says can't mount volume.

Just a couple of ideas
Are you sure that the CD is good? Can you view it on a windoze machine?

Sounds to me like the CD is not getting mounted. You can try to mount the CD manually as root. If it has a file system on it.
http://linuxcommand.org/man_pages/mount8.html

Stick the CD in the drive and issue
Scroll down to find out which drive the CD is if you are in doubt. Looks like /dev/hdc
Try to mount it read only.

Also was it a multi session CD? You may have to mount the session that the pictures are on.

If it's a drive access permission problem then open your picture viewer as root and try to access the drive.

A little more info on what wrote the CD would be helpful. What kind of file system was put onto the CD. Or no file system, but requires a particular application to access it.

Also was it burned with just joliet and not rock ridge extensions? Or is it a picture CD with no file system? Your going to have to find out what you have.

yet another tutorial about How to mount CD into linux. Perhaps it gives you some ideas.

Thanks for the information and suggestions. I will contact my cousin in KS and see what they used to create the CD. As far as I know it is just pictures, but since it was a Norwegian family reunion, it could have been a Swedish program and therefore unintelligible to me!! I'll also see if any of my sisters could open it and report back.

I installed XP on a 2nd HD and used Windows Media Player, the short video on the disk was viewable immediately and that was the intent. I will continue to find a program that works so easy on Linux to recognize the file and play it. Thanks again.

Thank you guys, just realized I've neglected to!

If I had that problem I would use this.

I use vlc to play DVD movies and to see TV as an on-line stream. You might try vlc or mplayer with your Microsoft video file and to see if it opens and plays.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ubuntu.html