Help Me Mount a Drive

carlosinfl · 11-14-2005, 01:34 PM

I have never been able to understand how to insert a CD in my one and only IDE CDROM drive and be able to browse to the files on Linux. I have asked this before and get like 20 different suggestions which end up getting to frustrating.

I am using Debian with NO GUI installed so everything is CLI only. I just put the disk in my CDROM drive and closed the drive. Now I am in CLI mode and would love for someone to tell me what is the correct way I would go about mounting this drive and getting the info I need from it.

Below you will find a copy of my FSTAB file from /etc

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sda1 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/sda5 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0

Here is what I tried and as you can see I am a regular user and have no luck.

Code:

carlos@stricom:/$ ls
bin   cdrom  etc   initrd      lib         media  opt   root  srv  tmp  var
boot  dev    home  initrd.img  lost+found  mnt    proc  sbin  sys  usr  vmlinuz
carlos@stricom:/$ mount -t /cdrom
carlos@stricom:/$ cd /cdrom
carlos@stricom:/cdrom$ ls
carlos@stricom:/cdrom$ cd ..
carlos@stricom:/$ ls
bin   cdrom  etc   initrd      lib         media  opt   root  srv  tmp  var
boot  dev    home  initrd.img  lost+found  mnt    proc  sbin  sys  usr  vmlinuz
carlos@stricom:/$ cd media/
carlos@stricom:/media$ ls
cdrom  cdrom0
carlos@stricom:/media$ mount -t /media/cdrom
carlos@stricom:/media$ cd cdrom
carlos@stricom:/media/cdrom$ ls
carlos@stricom:/media/cdrom$ cd ..
carlos@stricom:/media$ mount -t cdrom0/
carlos@stricom:/media$ cd cdrom0/
carlos@stricom:/media/cdrom0$ ls
carlos@stricom:/media/cdrom0$

Mad Scientist · 11-14-2005, 01:43 PM

What is on the CDROM (if it's audio, it won't mount)? Why are you using the "-t" flag with mount without specifying a file system type? Does

Code:

mount /media/cdrom0

really not work? What information is being spit out to your logs?

carlosinfl · 11-14-2005, 01:48 PM

It's a new audio CD I purchased from Best Buy that I wanted to add to my music library "/home/carlos/music" and this is the error I receive. I also don't know what you mean by "logs"... what logs are you speaking of and where should I look?

Code:

carlos@stricom:/$ mount /media/cdrom0
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc,
       missing codepage or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so

fouldsy · 11-14-2005, 01:50 PM

How about

Code:

mount /dev/hdc

and then look under /media/cdrom0...
[edit]scratch that, just read your new post about it being an audio cd. you'll need somethin like paranoia to simply rip the audio tracks to hard drive rather than mounting and copying the raw audio files across[/edit]

carlosinfl · 11-14-2005, 01:56 PM

So if this was a data file disk, what would the command by as a regular user from the / directory?

Mad Scientist · 11-15-2005, 12:52 PM

If it was a data disk, I would think

Code:

mount /media/cdrom0

would work just fine. But since it's audio, you don't need to worry about mounting it (and in fact, you can't mount it).