Mounting a DVD

chrisk5527 · 03-27-2004, 09:02 AM

How do you mount a DVD? This is my fstab entry for my DVD ROM, it was autogenerated by Fedora during the setup.

/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0

I've tried just the usually mount command, "mount /dev/cdrom", but it doesnt work.

mikshaw · 03-27-2004, 09:52 AM

If you're just playing a DVD (e.g. a movie) you don't need to mount it.
If it's a data DVD, the thing you mentioned should have worked?

chrisk5527 · 03-27-2004, 10:15 AM

Its a data DVD, but it doesnt mount.

acid_kewpie · 03-27-2004, 10:39 AM

how about expanding on "but it doesnt work", we're not psychic

chrisk5527 · 03-27-2004, 01:37 PM

(#:~)- mount /dev/cdrom
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom,
or too many mounted file systems

That is my error when I try mounting it.

r_jensen11 · 03-27-2004, 01:46 PM

post your /etc/fstab

chrisk5527 · 03-27-2004, 01:48 PM

I did on the first post.

r_jensen11 · 03-27-2004, 02:05 PM

Sorry. How about you change the fs type to auto and see how that acts? Would that even work?

chrisk5527 · 03-27-2004, 02:32 PM

I tried:
mount -t udf /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
mount -t auto /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

Neither worked.......

acid_kewpie · 03-27-2004, 02:35 PM

right, so what is /dev/cdrom then? "ls -l /dev/cdrom"

chrisk5527 · 03-27-2004, 02:40 PM

# ls -l /dev/cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Feb 11 14:56 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/scd0

acid_kewpie · 03-27-2004, 03:00 PM

ahh right, ok, so it's only a dvdrom? it's appaerntly set up with scsi emulation... edit lilo.conf and remove the line hdc=ide-scsi or whatever device it actually is. you'll then need to recreate a like to /dev/cdrom from /dev/hdc instead, ... easiest first to try mounting it directly to the original ide device name

mount /dev/hdc /mnt/dvd

chrisk5527 · 03-27-2004, 03:13 PM

What do you mean recreate /dev/cdrom? Re-link it? If thats the case, what do I link it to?

chrisk5527 · 03-27-2004, 03:18 PM

# ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom
# mount /dev/cdrom
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom,
or too many mounted file systems
(could this be the IDE device where you in fact use
ide-scsi so that sr0 or sda or so is needed?)

And I even tried
# mount /dev/hdc
and it still didnt work with same output

acid_kewpie · 03-27-2004, 04:01 PM

you'll need to remove the scsi emulation first, it will always try to use it as a scsi device with that module in place.