Mounting problem in Zenwalk?

V!NCENT · 06-01-2006, 01:36 AM

Hello,

I have a problem. Except for KateOS all other distributions I have ever tried seem to automaticly mount optical drives and start reading it's data. Zenwalk and KateOS (both Slackware based) do not seems to do this. They both have XFCE and the XFCE file manager and the Rox file manager.

So what happens when I insert a random cd/dvd in one of my optical drives? Nothing... So I did:

Code:

vincent[~]$ dmesg | grep "CD"
hdc: TSSTcorpCD/DVDW TS-H552U, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: AOPEN DVD1648/AAP, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdc: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
vincent[~]$ dmesg | grep "DVD"
hdc: TSSTcorpCD/DVDW TS-H552U, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdd: AOPEN DVD1648/AAP, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdc: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
hdd: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache, UDMA(33)

I can not mount as a user so:

Code:

vincent[~]$ su
Password:
root[vincent]# mount /dev/hdc /media/cdrom
mount: mount point /media/cdrom does not exist

So what is going on? What am I doing wrong?

V!NCENT · 06-01-2006, 11:45 AM

I know it is not mature and smart to bump, but this thread is getting pushed away by other threads and there has been no-one who could awnser my question wich should not be so difficult for the experienced/guru folks on a forum like this. I gues I am not the only newbie who has ever experienced mounting problems and yes... I googled in hope to find the awnser myself first

but I could not find it.

mrcheeks · 06-01-2006, 12:00 PM

Code:

mkdir /media/cdrom