Re: "mount: /dev/cdrom: unknown device"


Subject: Re: "mount: /dev/cdrom: unknown device"
From: Sean O. Denney (sdenney@cise.ufl.edu)
Date: Sun Dec 02 2001 - 17:15:32 MST


Do this:

cat /etc/fstab

then look for the device id of the cdrom.

Then

mount -t iso -o ro /dev/xxxx /mnt/cdrom

the xxxx is whatever was listed in the fstab file.

That should do it. The cdrom will be mounted in /mnt/cdrom

--- Sean

On 2 Dec 2001, Cesar Cardoso wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> YDL 2.1 on a PowerMac 5500/250, 64 MB RAM (soon to be 96MB), 8 GB HD.
>
> When I try to mount an data CD...
>
> mount: /dev/cdrom: unknown device
>
> And after that the CD is inacessible, even if I try only to hear an
> audio CD.
>
> - Cesar
>
>



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