Need alternatives for accessing data from cd's

Trinity22 · 03-28-2004, 11:03 PM

My usual method of putting in a CD and then double clicking the icon for that drive no longer works and I have 6 data CD's I need to get information off of. Is there any alternative method I can try to get the data off of the disks and onto this computer? My current error is

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Unable to run the command specified. The file or directory file:/misc/cdrom2 does not exist.

My distro is JAMD but it's Redhat 9 if that helps any. Thanks for any info.

Trinity

adz · 03-29-2004, 01:15 AM

Try a mkdir /misc/cdrom2 as root. Then try the icon again.

Trinity22 · 03-29-2004, 01:20 AM

thank you for the attempt at help... I tried it in root but got

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[root@44ba0d45 trinity]# mkdir /misc/cdrom2
mkdir: cannot create directory `/misc/cdrom2': No such file or directory
[root@44ba0d45 trinity]#

Trinity

Lleb_KCir · 03-29-2004, 01:24 AM

newB question here, but is the cdrom mounting properly?

mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

then try to ls /mnt/cdrom and see if it is there.

mikshaw · 03-29-2004, 01:43 AM

the "misc" directory sounds suspicious to me.

adz · 03-29-2004, 01:59 AM

I agree. Try editting /etc/fstab and changing the "misc" to an "mnt". Then make sure there is a /mnt/cdrom2 directory.