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Old 01-16-2009, 09:54 AM   #1
childofageek
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Question Mounting CdRom


Hey, i'm having trouble mounting my cdrom for some reason. I usually works just fine, but now it's not.

Input: mount /dev/cdrom
Output: mount: you must specify the file type

I'm logged in as root as well.

Thanks
 
Old 01-16-2009, 09:57 AM   #2
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For starters, you're not telling it where you want it mounted:

mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

unless it appears in fstab, in which case, could you post your fstab?

cheers,

Last edited by mrclisdue; 01-16-2009 at 10:01 AM. Reason: elaboration
 
Old 01-16-2009, 11:47 AM   #3
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Well, idk what your device is under /dev, but for some reason, mine is /dev/hdc. I don't understand why it's reading it as a hard drive (I thought it was supposed to be /dev/cdrom or /dev/cdrom0 or something), but try doing
Code:
mount /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom
mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom
mount /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom
mount /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom
etc. and just cycle through the different possible devices until you find it (you can't mount an audio CD btw). Make sure you have the mount point ("/mnt/cdrom" or wherever you want to mount it), like mrclisdue said.
 
Old 01-16-2009, 01:15 PM   #4
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Hmmm, neither of these seem to work, I did notice that when i restarted my system it said local file systems failed to mount.
 
Old 01-16-2009, 02:16 PM   #5
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What errors are you getting when you try to mount?
 
Old 01-16-2009, 02:31 PM   #6
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What errors are you getting when you try to mount?
mount: you must specify the file type
 
Old 01-16-2009, 02:37 PM   #7
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You can check the device with "dmesg|grep CD". Should say something like
Quote:
sr 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
which would mean /dev/sr0. Do a "ls -l /dev/sr0" if you want to check if that's a symlink, but it will work either way.
The filesystem for cd's is iso9660 and for dvd's udf.
You can mount with
Code:
mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom
(change the device and mountpoint to what you have).
Check if there's a line for the cd in /etc/fstab. Post contents of that file if not sure, but somethink like this should work:
Quote:
/dev/sr0 /media/dvd udf,iso9660 defaults,ro,users,noexec,noauto 0 0
 
Old 01-16-2009, 02:50 PM   #8
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You can check the device with "dmesg|grep CD". Should say something like which would mean /dev/sr0. Do a "ls -l /dev/sr0" if you want to check if that's a symlink, but it will work either way.
The filesystem for cd's is iso9660 and for dvd's udf.
You can mount with
Code:
mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom
(change the device and mountpoint to what you have).
Check if there's a line for the cd in /etc/fstab. Post contents of that file if not sure, but somethink like this should work:
scsi 0:0:1:0: CD-ROM LITE-ON LTR-52246S 6S0C PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
sr 0:0:1:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0

Here's what i got and when i tried mounting it said: No medium found
 
Old 01-16-2009, 02:58 PM   #9
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What kind of cd are you trying to mount?
Audio-cd's don't have a filesystem -> can not be mounted.
 
Old 01-16-2009, 03:54 PM   #10
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It's Diablo 2: Lod
 
Old 01-16-2009, 04:41 PM   #11
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Does the mountpoint exist?
Try mounting as root.
Post exact command you gave for mounting.
 
Old 01-16-2009, 04:46 PM   #12
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Does the mountpoint exist?
Try mounting as root.
Post exact command you gave for mounting.
[Spencer@gandolf ~]$ su
Password:
[root@gandolf Spencer]# mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom
mount: No medium found
[root@gandolf Spencer]#
 
Old 01-16-2009, 05:01 PM   #13
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Hi,

Might sound silly but do you have the cd in the drive?
 
Old 01-16-2009, 06:41 PM   #14
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Yep, its in. It also can't be the disk have tried multiple.
 
Old 01-16-2009, 07:45 PM   #15
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Is the CDROM drive broken? Also, please read link #4 in my signature.

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