How to mount cd's?

[jaipraveen]

Its unusual to mount CD drives in Linux i suppose since when a CD is loaded into the drive , an icon automatically appears in the Desktop after mounting...
But my problem is even i though i load a DVD , it says that the drive is empty or not mounted when I click CD/DVD in My computer???

Can anyone help out? Are there any specific commands to mount DVD's?

[Oxygen]

mount -t cd9660 /dev/<dvd drive> /mount/point

<dvd drive> should be the name of your device, like cdrom0 or something.

/mount/point should be a folder where you mount it from, need to be an empty folder, usually /mnt .

[jaipraveen]

[root@localhost ~]# mount -t cd9660 /dev/sda1 /mnt/e
mount: unknown filesystem type 'cd9660'


The o/p of fdisk -l command is :

[root@localhost ~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 5100 40960048+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/hda2 5101 7044 15615180 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 7045 7305 2096482+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda4 7306 9729 19466968+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
Partition 4 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/hda5 7045 7222 1429753+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Disk /dev/sda: 8195 MB, 8195281920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 996 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 978 7855753+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4 979 995 136552+ a0 IBM Thinkpad hibernation



Help me get rid of this prob?!??!?

[Oxygen]

Sorry, I think that's distro specific (Ubuntu).

Try just:

mount /dev/cdrom0 /mnt/e

[hazel]

Try using "-t iso9660" rather than "-t cd9660" as the type.

[jaipraveen]

distro i use is -FC6 ...But i am not still able to read files after loading a dvd... I tried both the commands and got the following results..By the by , how can i assure that my cdrom name using fdisk command..(how to make out whether its sda1 or sda5)? I have posted my fdisk output previously..


[root@localhost ~]# mount -t iso9660 /dev/sda4 /mnt/e
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda4,
missing codepage or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so

[root@localhost ~]# mount /dev/cdrom0 /mnt/e
mount: special device /dev/cdrom0 does not exist
[root@localhost ~]#

[tuxv]

try this

 sudo mount /dev/hdd /mnt/e

It's usually hdd for the CD drive

[jaipraveen]

It worked.. and the drive is mounted as read-only... Thanks a lot

[rong]

FYI, using colors in your posts is not necessary. Your yellow post was unreadable on my lcd display!