What is on the CD that you're trying to mount? This is, for instance, the
message you would get if you tried to mount a music CD (since music CDs don't
contain a filesystem).
M.
On Monday 11 December 2000 05:15, you wrote:
> Dear Sir/Madame,
>
> I installed the last version of Linux mandrake, but I have problems in
> mounting my cdrom, model: hp cd-writer 9100 series
>
> In particular, I have the following problem when I mount it
>
> mount /mnt/cdrom
>
> mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom,
> or too many mounted file systems
>
> The first line is OK, and the error is reported in the second line.
>
> My fstab file contains the following stuff
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> /dev/hda8 / ext2 defaults 1 1
> /dev/hda7 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
> none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,auto,nosuid 0 0
> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,user,rw 0 0
> /dev/zip /mnt/zip auto noauto,user,rw 0 0
>
> none /proc proc defaults 0 0
> /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Could you please explain me how to solve this problem ?
>
> I thank you in advance.
>
> Yours faithfully,
> Emidio Gabrielli
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