Accessing CDs (and, presumably, DVDs) with FC5
 

This problem is probably related to the one I talked about at http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=453241

I installed FC5 over Mandrake 10.1, and am liking it quite a bit so far, and got into my Windows partition, but I can't find where to find my CD drive. Launching the Audio CD Player (I'm using GNOME) only results in a "Drive Error" message and a program crash if I try to DO anything. In Mandrake, the CD could always be found in /mnt/cdrom but that doesn't even exist. What do I need to do to make FC5 realize that I have a CD-ROM drive?

Once again, thanks in advance for any help.

Try and look for "/media/cdrom" if you do not see it open a terminal and type and try and run the application again. Please post your results.

mount: can't find /media/cdrom in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

Okay, turns out there wasn't anything IN the drive. I put in a Dire Straits CD, and Totem immediately came up and played the CD just fine. The CD Audio Player in the menu did as well.

The thing is, however, my audio player of choice is XMMS, so I need to know where to tell it to look for my audio tracks. Plus, it would help if I knew how to get there with Nautilus. So where the heck is FC5 looking at my CD?

It's looking at /media/cdrom which from Nautilus is in Computer (select the appropriate drive.)

There is no /media/cdrom.

If there is no /media/cdrom - then you need to create this directory, because it is the mount point for the mount command.

If there is no entry in etc/fstab for /media/cdrom then

won't work because it is a short version of the full mount command that relies on the etc/fstab.

The other problem could be that the permissions for /dev/hdc or /dev/hdd (these probably are your cd & cdrecorder) are owned by root & ordinary users don't have read permission. You need to change this so that you do.

Once you have the right permissions then you can do a mount command:

this assumes that you CD drive (/dev/hdc)is the master on the 2nd IDE cable. If you have a cdrecorder as well this might be /dev/hdd, or they could be the other way around depending on how they are plugged into the IDE cable.

Read up on the man page mount and fstab.

Would you please send us the output of the following commands?
cat /etc/fstab
dmesg | grep hd I assume you have an IDE CDROM/DVD
ls -al /media

The drive(s) should be under /media/* e.g. /media/cdrecorder