[101482] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Hi speed CD-ROM
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ramon Gandia)
Thu Nov 26 17:55:29 1998
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 13:51:08 -0900
From: Ramon Gandia <rfg@nook.net>
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Adrian Saidac wrote:
>
> Has anybody any idea how I can make a 32x CD-ROM to work with 5.1?
> I have all the proper settings including the "9660", I can mount but I CAN
> NOT see any files oh the disk!
The mount command does not give error messages when it fails
to mount for some reasons, but gives error messages for others.
Here is what you should have in order to mount.
1. There should be an entry in /etc/fstab, something like
this:
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
The "mount point, of course, is /mnt/cdrom.
2. The mount point has to exist. It does not by default, so you
have to create it. As root, go to the base directory, /, and
look.
The directory /mnt has to exist. Then look in /mnt and the
directory /mnt/cdrom has to exist. If they do not you need
to create them, in order. Like this
mkdir /mnt
mkdir /mnt/cdrom
3. The CDROM can now be mounted. With the above entyr in
/etc/fstab
you simply do
mount /mnt/cdrom
Now you should be able to go there and see the file listings.
cd /mnt/cdrom
4. If the /etc/fstab file does not have the cdrom line in it,
you can still mount the CD. You can either add the line, or
you can mount manually without the benefit of the fstab entry:
mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
5. If you have compiled a kernel, be advised that in RH 5.1 and
on it is somewhat obscure how to include iso9660 support in the
kernel. If you do not have support for iso9660, then its not
going to work. However, the default kernel supplied by RedHat
*has* support for iso9660.
Let us know where things stop working in the list of steps above.
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