wrong kernel?
 

at the install of slack you can pick a kernel and it said that some do not support scsi, well they did not give much explenation of each choice so i just picked one and now i get this output when trying to mount my cd:

[root@siccmade:/home/siccmade]$ mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
/dev/cdrom: Input/output error
mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only
/dev/cdrom: Input/output error
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
[root@siccmade:/home/siccmade]$

what kind of a fs could a cd have.
i am very confused over this and thats why i think it has something to do with the fact that i picked the wrong kernel at install...
a friend of mine said i could re-compile it but i am kind of new to this so i would need help first off finding a kernel i need.

iso9660
 

try mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

check man page for mount

There should be an entry in your /etc/fstab file for CD-ROM. Check man for fstab to learn how to add this entry to fstab so that you could just type mount /mnt/cdrom.

mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom,
or too many mounted file systems


thats what i got when i did that command
i'll read the man pages one more time
thanks a lot

This thread might help.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=64087