First, mounting the cd should not depend on the system creating it. The file system that is on the cd will be an ISO 9660 fs or an extension thereof. Doing anything with the contents is a different story.
Now, why are you mounting it to /media/fstab? There is a file /etc/fstab (file system table) which is a configuration file for mounting devices on specified mount points. I don't know why your system is referring to that in lieu of /media/fstab, but quite frankly I would staty away from the fstab name for anything other than the system file. Also, does the system say
Code:
etc/fstab is not a directory
or does it say
Code:
/etc/fstab is not a directory
. Big difference - the leading /. As you show it it is looking for etc/fstab in the curent working directory.
Often a system is configured to mount a cd as soon as you load it in the drive. Is yours not?
I'm going to make a guess that there is something wrong that you are not seeing with your mount command. So we will start there. I am assuming you are sure your cd is /dev/sr0. If it isn't that is another problem. If it is, try this command:
Code:
sudo mount /dev/sr0 /mnt
. That should mount it at /mnt. Check to make sure you as a user have access to read the directory:
If you do, then
You should now see the contents of the cd. Do you or what error messages do you get?
If you think the cd may be mounted anyway, try
Code:
grep /sr /proc/mounts
That should tell show you any mounts of anything containing the character string "/sr".