Mounting a CD
 

hai all
i want know how to mount a cd/usb stick.

i tried this command.but its not working.

mount -t auto /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
its telling that Media not found.


This is the output of fdisk command.
# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 6827 14593 62388427+ 8e Linux LVM
/dev/hda3 * 2222 4873 21302190 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda4 4874 6826 15687472+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 4874 5521 5205028+ e W95 FAT16 (LBA)
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i followed this link.
http://linux.about.com/od/linux101/l/blnewbie4_2_2.htm


i tried all the options given in that link.

can anyone help me?

First determine whether the /dev/cdrom device exists:
ls -l /dev/cdrom.

It might be a pointer to the actual device:
My internal cdrom should be at /dev/hdc but it is kapoot.

Data cdroms use the iso9660 filesystem.

So I would use
sudo mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
or
sudo mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom
if I needed to manually mount it.

For a music CDROM, there isn't a filesystem. There is an IO slave called "cdrom:" that you can use in konqueror to perform conversions. Different types of music file types like ogg, flac will show up in a window as if they existed in a filesytem. When you copy one of these files somewhere, using drag and drop, the conversion will take place.

If your distro uses HAL and udev, then the /dev/cdrom is created on the fly. Inserting a cdrom should result in a popup dialog asking you what you want to do, such as play music (music cd) or open the directory (data cd).

Mounting a CD
 

hai
thanks 4 ur reply.
1.this is the output of ls -l /dev/cdrom command.

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Jan 4 09:12 /dev/cdrom -> hdb



2.this is my fstab entry.

/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0


here i m not finding anything related to cdrom.can i make an entry in the fstab file for cd as root?

Output of mount command
 

Hai
thanks.
i got the output like this,

[root@localhost ~]# ls -l /dev/cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Jan 4 09:12 /dev/cdrom -> hdb

[root@localhost ~]# mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom
mount: No medium found


waiting for ur reply.

I was sick last night and so I wasn't on the computer, so I didn't reply earlier.

What is the cdrom that you are trying to mount? There needs to be a CD in the drive and it needs to be a data CD. It is the filesystem on the CD that you are trying to mount. So two additional problems can crop up. A smudge or scratch on the disc can cause a problem mounting it. A bad cdrom drive or a dirty laser can also cause a problem mounting. Often if the cdrom drive has a problem /var/log/messages will contain I/O Error messages.

fstab doesn't need an entry for the cdrom.

try mount /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom

The mount command he last used was OK. He already tried your mount command as well.