Mounting a CD

Demon526 · 05-06-2004, 03:59 PM

Ok I was wondering, how do you Mount a CD on Slackware, version 8.1.

If this is a really stupid question i'm sorry, but im really new to this stuff.

Just, how do you Mount a CD on SLackware Linux 8.1?

TheOther1 · 05-06-2004, 04:01 PM

I think

Code:

mount /dev/cdrom

will do it. Unless that's not your device.

itsjustme · 05-06-2004, 04:04 PM

You need to be root.

$ su
(password)
# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

then you can:
cd /mnt/cdrom
ls /mnt/cdrom
etc...

Then be sure to get out of the directory, for example, run 'cd' to take you back to your home directory, before unmounting, so you can eject.

Unmounting is with umount, no 'n':

umount /dev/cdrom

Also note, you don't mount audio CD's. You just stick those in and run an audio app that plays them.

fransemail · 05-06-2004, 04:07 PM

the complete commas line is:

$ su
# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom -t iso9660 -o ro,umask=0

Demon526 · 05-06-2004, 04:09 PM

Ok i get the commands, but here's a more specific question, what goes into the command line in order to mount a CD? I really need to know more than just one command.

itsjustme · 05-06-2004, 04:10 PM

I edited my post. See post #3 again.

Does that help?

Demon526 · 05-06-2004, 04:12 PM

ok it helps a little more, ill try that, thanks.