Re: tlug: Mounting CD-ROM

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Eltigani Musa wrote:

> Hi every body
> 
> Using the command  "# mount /cdrom"  after installing S.u.S.E Linux 5.3 for
> the first  was failed to mount the CD. and this is the system reply :
> mount: can't find /cdrom in /etc/mtab or /etc/fstab
> However this CD was not on a S.u.S.E distribution and I became root when I
> did that.
> then I tried this:
> "# grep cdrom /etc/fstab" and this is the system reply for the second time:
> #/dev/hdc                 /cdrom                iso9660
> ro,noauto,user  0           0
> then I do not know what to do?
> Actually I'm a beginner in linux enviroment and I want to mount the CD-ROM
> as any user or to access the CD-ROM resources any where and when ever the
> my study reqires.

looks like the line is commented out in the fstab.  edit the fstab and
take the leading # off of that line.

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
Head of TurboLinux Development/Systems Administrator
Pacific HiTech, Inc (USA) / Pacific HiTech, KK (Japan)


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