On Wed, 08 Mar 2000, David Magnus ALVAREZ STEWART wrote about, problem accessing
drives.:
> hi...
> I've just installed an old version of redhat ('think it's a RH 1.X). My problem is
>that I've managed to install it but I would like to know how to mount my cdrom
>drive. The drive is recognised by the kernel. What do I need to edit to be able to
>access it just by typing "mount /mnt/cdrom"?. Thanks
Well the first thing i suggest you do is make your editor or mailer/editor
do a line wrap at something like 75 chars, the line above here is 302 chars
long.
Questions like this are asked here nealy every week so the answer is to be
found many times over in the archives;
http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/Linux/47/0
Use the search engine there to find a "Keyword"
Another good place for info;
http://www.linuxtopia.com
In short;
mount -tiso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
Make sure your system has a symbolic link in /dev for your device
the device being one of, /dev/hdx where x a, b, c, or d
hda= primary master
hdb= primary slave
hdc= secondary master
hdd= secondary slave
ls -al /dev/cdrom will show on which device it is.
ln -s /dev/hdb /dev/cdrom
links hdb to cdrom
You dont have to edit anything at all, its just that if you edit /etc/fstab
and enter;
/dev/hdb /cdrom iso9660 noauto,user 0 0
You can use the mount command in short which is for the above example;
mount /cdrom
No editing then you need to type the full mount line;
mount -tiso9660 /cdrom /cdrom
man mount
man fstab
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Regards Richard
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