I decided I needed major help with this one - in other words, a walk-through.
I was working and shoved a CD into my laptop as I do every once in a
while (not that often - I'm happy to use the network 99.99999999999%
of the time).
Well, I stuck it in, and there wasn't any automounter action that I
could see, so I wisely (for me, at least) went to fstab to find this:
localhost ~ # cat /etc/fstab
/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda2 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda3 / ext3 defaults 0 1
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 vfat noauto,async,user,exec 0 0
My CD drive wasn't listed. Big surprise.
To be more specific about the hardware I'm using, I'm using a CD
RW/DVD-ROM drive in the docking station to my X40. Here's all the
relevant entries from /dev that could help.
Oops... tried "cat /dev/dvd..." didn't work too well. Started
reading the *whole* contents of the CD. Gotta remember that next
time...
Well, now it complains that no medium is found. However, it looks
like it's listed as /dev/hdc in addition to what I assume are aliases
as /dev/dvd, /dev/cdrom, and /dev/cdrw.
Sorry I can't be more precise, but I'd like some help with sticking
this in fstab so that I can mount the disk and then use it. I'm so
darn inexperienced with this.
There isn't anything from /etc/mtab that could help, either:
localhost etc # cat mtab
/dev/hda3 / ext3 rw 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0
udev /dev tmpfs rw,nosuid 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw 0 0
cachedir /lib/splash/cache tmpfs rw 0 0
/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 rw 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs rw,devmode=0664,devgid=85 0 0
I'm flummoxed. I don't even know where to begin, since anything I can
try and Google will most likely not be for my system. Any help or
pointers?
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