[SLE] Mount CD-ROM

From: James Wright (jwright_at_blackriverproduce.com)
Date: 03/29/05

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    I am still learning the ins and outs of linux, and in the process of
    trying to get an external USB CD burner to work, I have somehow disabled
    my CD-ROM. When I click the icon in 'My Computer' (KDE 3.3, SuSE Linux
    9.2 Pro) it gives the following message:

    An error occurred while loading drives:/cdrom.desktop:
    The file or folder /media/cdrom does not exist.

    It seemed obvious that I needed to create the directory /media/cdrom.
    That did not work. Here is what I have tried. As you will see I can
    use it by mounting to /mnt, but I would like my link in KDE to work
    correctly. (I had the SuSE 9.2 Disc 5 in the drive the entire time)

    linux:/home/james # cd /media
    linux:/media # ls
    /bin/ls: .: No medium found
    linux:/media # cd .
    linux:/media # cd ..
    linux:/ # mkdir /media/cdrom
    mkdir: cannot create directory `/media/cdrom': No medium found
    linux:/ # mound /dev/cdrom /mnt
    bash: mound: command not found
    linux:/ # mount /dev/cdrom /mnt
    mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only
    linux:/ # mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
    mount: mount point /mnt/cdrom does not exist
    linux:/ # mkdir /mnt/cdrom
    mkdir: cannot create directory `/mnt/cdrom': Read-only file system
    linux:/ # mkdir /mnt/cd
    mkdir: cannot create directory `/mnt/cd': Read-only file system
    linux:/ # cd /mnt
    linux:/mnt # ls
    . autorun.inf COPYING INDEX.gz media.5 SuSEgo.ico
    .. content COPYRIGHT ls-lR.gz suse
    linux:/mnt #

    And I also assume the fstab file is of interest:

    /dev/hda7 / reiserfs
    acl,user_xattr 1 1
    /dev/hda1 /windows/C ntfs
    ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
    /dev/hda5 /windows/D ntfs
    ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
    /dev/hda6 swap swap
    pri=42 0 0
    devpts /dev/pts devpts
    mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
    proc /proc proc
    defaults 0 0
    usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs
    noauto 0 0
    sysfs /sys sysfs
    noauto 0 0
    /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom subfs
    fs=cdfss,unhide,rw,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
    /dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs
    fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0
    /dev/ /media/ subfs
    fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0

    Thank you.

    - James 

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