CD-rom

**splittik** · 03-20-2005

I have knoppix 3.8 installed on the hard drive. When i click on CD-rom on the desktop, it says /mnt/cd-rom not found. when i look in the directory, i see a locked file CD-rom and it says "this file doesn't seem to exist anymore". How do i view and run the contents of my cd drive?

**dylunio** · 03-20-2005

Try this in the terminal:

Code:

su
&#91;rootpass&#93;
mkdir /mnt/cdrom
mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom

if that doesn't work try

Code:

su
&#91;rootpass&#93;
mount /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom

if that doesn't work try

Code:

su
&#91;rootpass&#93;
mkdir /mnt/cdrom
mount /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom

and if that doesn't work try

Code:

su
&#91;rootpass&#93;
mkdir /mnt/cdrom
mount /dev/hda /mnt/cdrom

.

then navigate your cd rom via /mnt/cdrom

dylunio

**splittik** · 03-21-2005

Code:

mkdir /mnt/cdrom
mkdir&#58; cannot create directory `/mnt/cdrom'&#58; File exists
mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom
mount&#58; mount point /mnt/cdrom is a symbolic link to nowhere

it gives me this for all of the commands

**dylunio** · 03-21-2005

Hmm try this:

Try this in the terminal:

Code:

su
&#91;rootpass&#93;
mkdir /mnt/cd
mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cd

if that doesn't work try

Code:

su
&#91;rootpass&#93;
mount /dev/hdd /mnt/cd

if that doesn't work try

Code:

su
&#91;rootpass&#93;
mkdir /mnt/cd
mount /dev/hdb /mnt/cd

and if that doesn't work try

Code:

su
&#91;rootpass&#93;
mkdir /mnt/cd
mount /dev/hda /mnt/cd

.

then navigate your cd rom via /mnt/cd

dylunio

**splittik** · 03-21-2005

first three i recieved "not a valid block device" last one i recieved

Code:

 mount /dev/hda /mnt/cd
mount&#58; /dev/hda already mounted or /mnt/cd busy

note that lately i've had incident(after i posted the first post) where i think the BIOS thinks my cdrom drive is the hard drive since it doesnt recognize a master drive and i put the cdrom drive in my boot sequence and then it loaded my OS successfully but didnt load my live CD.

P.S. my partitions are hda's

**dylunio** · 03-21-2005

Hmm I'm not sure that Knoppix is seeing your cdrom drive, I'm not sure I can help further at the moment sorry. But I do take that you are trying this all with a cd in the cd rom drive?

/dev/hda is your hard drive that is why it ios already mounted, so now we no not to look at that

dylunio

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