Situation:

I am very new to linux.

I installed RH 8 thru CD's and everything works fine.

I installed RH 9 from ftp server at ftp.uconn.edu and almost everything works fine except my CD-ROM is not detected. I go to hardware browser it is listed there. Samsung CD-ROM SC-140. I opened the /etc/fstab file and it has this line:

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

I tried to manually mount it with this command:

mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom

and it says "no medium found".

Help me please.

Thank you in advance.

maybe a dumb question but did you insert a cd in your drive before mounting it? There has to be a cd in there.

Also, only root can mount if you have the "owner" option in your fstab file instead of "user"

I did not insert a CD. Now that I did the error reads this "not a directory" after i manually mount the CD-ROM.

I log-on as root.

Help me please.

When do you get that message? Is the cd mounted? If it is, you should be able to go into the directory
/mnt/cdrom
to see the contents of your cd. You cannot go into
/dev/cdrom or /dev/hdc or /dev/anything since these are not directories.

I can access /mnt/cdrom but i don't see anything inside.

So you mount the cd by

mount /mnt/cdrom

then change into the cdrom rdirectory by

cd /mnt/cdrom

then try to see its contents (assuming the cd isn't empty and isn't an audio cd) by

ls -a

What do you get? Any error messages?

I did it (ls -a). The CD I used is my RH 8 installer. The result is just one dot then a two dots.

hm. So basically your cd is empty according to it. have you tried other cds? What does your /etc/mtab look like after mounting the cd? If the cd is mounted, there should be an entry for the cdrom.

I'm also a bit bothered by your fstab entry. I don't know the ins and outs of it but what I have is

/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,umask=0,user,nodev 0 0

maybe you could backup your fstab and then replace the entry for the cdrom with the above and see what happens.

I tried with different CD's. No success yet.

This is my mtab looks like:

/dev/hda3 / ext3 rw 0 0
none /proc proc rw 0 0
usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw 0 0
/dev/hda2 /boot ext3 rw 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0

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As root, try "mount /dev/cdrom". Then run "mount" to see if you mounted it succesfully. It should be listed if you did.

Can you post again what your errors are when you try to mount a data CD.

Any errors when you try
mount /mnt/cdrom

I guess it took me awhile to post

[root@localhost /]# mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom

mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: Not a directory

I just installed RH9 again but now thru CD. still the problem is the same. I was able to load thru CD.

what happens when you do (as root)
mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

could you post your whole fstab? And your mtab after you try to mount a cd?

/mnt/cdrom directory does not exist.

mkdir /mnt/cdrom
chmod 777 /mnt/cdrom

After reload do you still get a /mnt/cdrom directory error?