Reading DVDs + Mounting ISOs in Ubuntu

[{MaX}]

I was offline for a week. Now I've got 2 queries:

One, I'm using Ubuntu 5.whatever. Whenever I insert a DVD, GNOME puts an icon on the desktop. But opening the DVD shows it's empty! How do I make Ubuntu read DVDs? Note that the DVD I'm mounting is not a movie or something. It's a data DVD.

And second, how to mount ISO images? The apropos command gave some suggestions but I couldn't figure out how to use them.

Thanx.

[alain_]

iso' can be mounted with

mount -o loop -t iso9660 filename.iso /mnt/

[bryansmith]

Can you read regular data CD's? Maybe Ubuntu is not giving your user permission to view the CD/DVD device. What are the contents of your fstab?

Bryan

[ordoni]

a little bit off topic

a very convenient way of loading media is to use the removable media utility

i always use it.........i made a launcher for it

[{MaX}]

Thanx alain for the ISO thingy.

@bryansmith
Yup. I can read CDs all right. But DVDs don't work. They used to work in Fedora Core.

@ordoni
Where do I find this removable media utility?

fstab says this:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
/dev/hdc          /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0       0
/dev/hdd         /media/cdrom1    udf,iso9660 ro,user,noauto  0       0

But usually Ubuntu mounts the CDs as soon as they're inserted. The icon appears on the desktop.

EDIT : Removed the HDDs, the floppy, swap and proc to make the code more readable.

[ordoni]

@ordoni
Where do I find this removable media utility?

depends on your distro........in debian.......it is under System

the actual name of this utility is KwikDisk

[bryansmith]

Have you tried manually mounting the DVD drive? Try (as root):

mount /dev/[dvd device] /mnt/dvd

(you will have to make the dvd folder in /mnt).

Bryan

[{MaX}]

I'll try mounting the DVD manually....