That was killing me too when i was trying to install an music cd
player.../dev/cdrom is a symlink to your cdrom...usually, Linux always
calls your cdrom /dev/hdc
You need to add a statement to your /etc/fstab like this:
/dev/hdc /cdrom iso9660 ro 0 0
This statement will try to mount the cdrom (in a directory called
/cdrom) everytime you boot the computer (but will just give a couple of
errors and quit trying if you don't have a cdrom in the drawer).
Once you have that in your fstab try mounting the cdrom from a command
line (mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom) instead of doing it in K. That way you
can eliminate the windowmanager from the list of possible reasons it
won't work. I have become very leary of using the GUI to do anything
administrative in Linux..it never seems to work or work correctly.
HTH,
Scott
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Dunnette [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 1998 2:40 PM
> To: Linux-Newbie
> Subject: Mounting CDROM in KDE
>
> I'm trying to get KDE to mount my CD-ROM so I can access it from my
> desktop. I configured it with the same settings it has in my fstab,
> but
> when I try to mount it it says:
>
> mount: can't find dev/hdc in /etc/mtab or /etc/fstab
>
> This confuses me: why is it trying to mount /dev/hdc when my CD-ROM is
> just /dev/cdrom???
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Brian Dunnette
