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12-14-2002, 11:57 AM
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Registered: Dec 2002
Location: IL
Distribution: NetBSD, Slackware, Gentoo, Debian, FreeBSD
Posts: 444
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mount and umount
i am having trouble with this whole mount and umount process.....I put a CD in and then mount /mnt/cdrom....then when i try and switch to that directory it gives me a Input/output error......when i umount /mnt/cdrom and then change it will let me go to that directory....When i do it with floppy it works fine but cant get into cdrom directory.... i know the cdrom is working because i can listen to cd's in xmms.What am i doing wrong??? -thanks
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12-14-2002, 12:45 PM
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Moderator
Registered: Aug 2002
Posts: 26,855
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What distro are you using?
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12-14-2002, 03:08 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2002
Location: Mosquitoville
Distribution: RH 6.2, Gen2, Knoppix,arch, bodhi, studio, suse, mint
Posts: 3,306
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mount -t iso9660 /mnt/cdrom
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12-14-2002, 03:39 PM
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Registered: Dec 2002
Location: IL
Distribution: NetBSD, Slackware, Gentoo, Debian, FreeBSD
Posts: 444
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lol, it was becuase i was trying to look at a audio cd...put in a data cd and it worked, guess you cant look at audio cd from the terminal?? -thanks
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12-14-2002, 04:04 PM
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LQ Guru
Registered: Mar 2002
Location: Salt Lake City, UT - USA
Distribution: Gentoo ; LFS ; Kubuntu ; CentOS ; Raspbian
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Audio CD's normally aren't mounted, simply played. That's also true with DVD's, usually.
Cool
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