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How do I mount a IDE CD rom drive. I'm running Mandrake :Pengy: 9.1. I think I screwed my up :( . I installed wine trying to get Counter Strike working and could not get to my cd rom by typing ( mount /dev/cdrom ), the error i'm getting is "mount: can't find /dev/cdrom in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab" I went to the Mandrake Control Center and went to "Set where your CD/DVD burner is mounted" and now I can see any thing on my CD's :mad: Please help...


Quest

Can you post your fstab file here? You should normally just type mount /mnt/cdrom, but let's take a peek first.

I would be happy to post that. I feel like nut asking this... How do I get the info?

Open up a console and type cat /etc/fstab and then post what is on screen into your browser. Alternatively, open up the file in a text editor (more dangerous, perhaps) and copy/paste it here, if you like.

/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
/dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
none /home/johnswb/mnt/scd0 supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,user,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0

I get this when I tried the mount command

mount /mnt/cdrom

mount: according to mtab, none is already mounted on /mnt/cdrom
mount failed

Try these:

It says only the root can do that. How do i change to root in a Shell?

To change to root in a shell, type: su
Then enter root's password.

Where did you set the CD-ROM to be mounted (from Mandrake Control Centre)? Is it /home/johnswb/mnt/scd0 ? If so, try: mount /home/johnswb/mnt/scd0

I guess I got it to work in the Control Center because now when I type in /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom it allows me to see the info on my CD. Do you know how to make the CDrom accessible in the gui?


Thanks for the help

With my IDE cdrom, I have to have it connected when I boot to get it recongnised (although I'm trying to fix that).

Try rebooting with the cdrom attached. Once you've done that just put a cd in and most distros will mount it automatically for you and open a file browser.

BFK

In Mandrake 9.1, you shouldn't even have to mount. It's always in your /mnt/cdrom directory. Try that.

Cheers!

Jack.