[NTLUG:Discuss] mounting my cdrom revisited
Ken Frazer
frazer at acm.org
Sat Oct 5 19:40:10 CDT 2002
Fred,
/dev/hdb means second IDE device on the first IDE controller, which may
well be a CDROM. Do an ls -l on /dev/cdrom and, if it is an ATAPI cdrom,
you will see that it is soft linked to an hd? device of some sort.
At 07:10 PM 10/5/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
>is how the line reads in my /etc/fstab (RH 7.2). Since this stuff varies
>from system to system, check your man(ual) pages for "fstab" - but my
>first thought would be that your fstab cdrom entry is incorrect, starting
>with the device (first entry) that your are trying to mount. "/dev/hdb"
>means second hard disk in everything I've read.
>
>falconjetflyer at netscape.net wrote:
>
>>
>> The following command is from my /etc/fstab
>>
>> /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom auto
>> user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0
>>
>> Does it mean that my cdrom is automounted?
>> If so, should i see a cdrom's contents in nautilus?
>> I don't.
>> And it won't allow me to mount manually.
>> I am using mandrake 8.1
>> My floppy has basically the same command and it mounts OK.
>> ? ? ? ? ? Garion
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