On Sat, 2 Jan 1999, David Ramsden wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Erm, I am _new_ to Linux and have just installed it. I got a copy of
> StarOffice 5.0 and some other Linux software on CD-ROM and wanted to know how
> to mount the CD so that I can access the data on it.
>
> I have tried mount -t adfs /dev/hdb cdfs to mount it but it says that it
> can't mount it for some reason (read only FS if I recall).
As has been said the problem there is that the type of CDs is normally
ISO9660.
As an extra tip to make life easier add something like this to your
/etc/fstab:
/dev/hdb /cdrom iso9660 noauto,user 0 0
Then all you need to do in future is type
mount /cdrom
Dave
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