Just because you find cdrom and floppy in the directory /mnt, that doesn't
mean the cdrom and floppy-disk filesystems are mounted. All you know from
what you told us is that the mount points (which are just ordinary
directories, BTW) exist, not that they are in use. Some distributions check
for a cd during boot and mount it if present; an entry in /etc/fstab
controls this behavior ("man fstab" and "man mount" for details).
To mount a cd by hand, do this (as root):
mount /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom
(assuming the CD-ROM drive is the primary IDE slave device, hence on hdb).
Then cd to /mnt/cdrom and you should see it.
BTW, most distributions have an entry /dev/cdrom that is a symlink to the
physical cd device. If your system has this, you'll probably find it easier
to use
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
to mount a CD.
At 10:20 PM 3/23/99 -0600, Stephen A Jones Jr wrote:
>hello,
> ihave red hat 5.0..and when it boots up i see that linux sees all my
>partitions..and i go to
>/mnt and cdrom and floppy are mounted..
>but i change into the cdrom directory and see nothing at all...
>do i address it buy mnt? or the hdb since it is the master on the second
>chanel?
>just curious....i have download stuff on to my harddrive in windows and
>want to access those partitions and well and my cdrom..thanks...
>i use redhats filesystem control panel..and it does not see them at all.
>
>so i went into the file fstab. or something like that but nothing
>worked..so i just left it all like it was when i did the
>installl...thanks
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