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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