I installed RedHat 9.0 on my Dell Latitude CPx Laptop. I have installed twice (from CDs). After install, I cannot mount a cdrom. There is no entry in /etc/fstab. There is no device "cdrom" in /dev. The /mnt directory is entry. There is no CDROM or FLOPPY directory as would be expected.

How do I get my cdrom mounted?

I'm not actually an expert on this myself, but I'll take a shot at it.

I use mandrake which sets it up as Supermount, last I knew RedHat didn't do that (which is a shame since even DOS has had supermount since the early 90's). Assuming RH9 doesn't, you can at least get to the drive using a manual mount command as follows:

mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom
and later when your done with the CD...
umount /mnt/cdrom

You'd have to create a directory under /mnt called cdrom (and I'm assumingg your CD rom drive is device HDC... it could be HDD, you'd have to check). If you don't have supermount, I wouldn't recommend adding the definition of the CD rom in your fstab file since you may not always have a CD in the drive when your computer starts out. I wish I could be more helpful but without supermount... mounting and unmounting CD's is kindof a pain. If RH9 does have supermount and it's just not working... I'm afraid I can't help you there. It's always just worked for me so I don't know exeactly how to configure it. Good luck anyways.