Can anyone tell me where exactly the cdrom drive is located and how to browse the files on a CD like you do by accesing d:/ on windows?

Thanks.

If the cdrom is Secondary Master > /dev/hdb
If the cdrom is Primary Slave > /dev/hdc (like here)
if the cdrom is Secondary Slave > /dev/hdd

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To access you have to mount (see more withe the command man mount ) the driver, most distros already do this automaticly (the mounted cdrom may be in /cdrom or /mnt/cdrom but only will be showing something when you have a disk inserted and is mounted), but the command you must enter is: mount /dev/hdX /mnt/cdrom
Where hdX is hdb, hdc or hdd.
if the folder cdrom dont exist you will need to create it using the command mkdir /mnt/cdrom
to check if it existis you may run: ls -a /mnt if shows something like this:
them its there.

if command mount /dev/hdX /mnt/cdrom returns an error about the file type you have to mount with the follow command mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdX /mnt/cdrom


NOTE: execute this commands running as root!
if you dont know how to access as root you have to use the su command or if your user have permission the sudo <command> command.

Also maybe the slackware install did some fstab setup for you

You may just try :
mount /mnt/cdrom
then cd /mnt/cdrom and do a ls to see your files

yeah... good point ;D

Okay so, I did all of what you told me... all of which didn't seem to work =/

when entering 'mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom' I get this message:

''mount: block device /dev/hdc is write protected, mounting read-only"
"mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on dev/hdc, missing codepage or other error.
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so''

EDIT: The thing is though, I can run 'gxine' - a multimedia player and select 'CD from the file menu. I checked the preferences and found that it is set to read /mnt/cdrom so obviously, it is being linked to the cdrom fine... in terms of playing an audio cd!

them you got it

Not entirely... I don't know why but, If I insert a data disk, or even keep the same audio cd in the drive - I open /mnt/cdrom and nothing is there! Seems a bit odd, maybe I'll need to re-install slackware?

I checked the playlist editor for gxine and it gives the 'MRL adress' for the file as cdda:/1, cdda:/2 etc.

That will change nothing

Audio CDs can't be mounted, they don't contain any file system into them
only one large audio file and tracks index informations

What are the error message when insert a data cd and attempt to mount it with :
mount /mnt/cdrom

Also maybe post your /etc/fstab file and the output with :
ls -l /dev/cdrom

Managed to sort it out, tried a different disk from the audio & orig. data disk and it worked fine. Must have been the disk, thanks for the mounting help though! Worked great.