cdrom unable to eject, mount or unmount

From: No Spam (nospam_at_home.com)
Date: 01/25/04 

Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 16:20:56 -0000

Hi I had a cdrom with my redhat 9
it would eject with
eject /cdrom
or
eject /mnt/cdrom

it would mount with
mount /mnt/cdrom
or
mount /cd

now it each time I type mount or eject it would say no such command 'cdrom'
or 'cd' in /etc/mtab or /etc/fstab
Anyway I replaced the cdrom, and I can eject it manually, but I still get
the no such command in /etc/fstab or /etc/fstab
here is a copy of my /etc/ftab and /etc/mtab files I am new and owuld like
to know what to type to get it recognise the cdrom, it is a redhat 9, acer
4300 256Mb ram 12 gig harddrive

/etc/mtab:
/dev/hda2 / ext3 rw 0 0
none /proc proc rw 0 0
usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs rw 0 0
/dev/hda1 /boot ext3 rw 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,user=oracle 0 0

/etc/fstab
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda3 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0
0

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