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Old 10-08-2005, 11:15 AM   #1
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Unhappy When I put a game in the cd drive nothing shows up. What do i do?


Whenever I put a CD into the CD drive nothing happens. Can someone tell me what to do?
 
Old 10-08-2005, 11:40 AM   #2
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Old 10-08-2005, 02:10 PM   #3
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try mounting your device
Code:
mount /mnt/cdrom
or how ever it is setup for your device in /etc/fstab

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Old 10-08-2005, 03:57 PM   #4
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that is probabbly the answer, try doing a ls of mnt/cdrom to see if its allready mounted if not as root type

Code:
 mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
that will mount it (providing the /dev/cdrom symlink is there)
 
Old 10-08-2005, 04:01 PM   #5
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Questions like this have been asked before; you must learn the ways of the search.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...+mount+cd+roms

Also see:
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz
http://www.linux.org/lessons/beginner/index.html
http://linux-newbie.sunsite.dk/
http://www.tldp.org/
 
  


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