It can't see my CDROM drive.

[fishfish]

I tried opening my tar files on my cd... by typing "/cdrom" and then i type "ls" and it doesn't show any files.
Is there a command i'm not using or sumthin?
Any help is much appreciated.

thnx,
IPM

[genesus]

if you are running from the cdrom make sure it is mounted

[fishfish]

I'm kinda new to linux
So how do i mount my cd drive?

[genesus]

type in a console as root, until you set up permissions correctly:

mount /dev/cdrom

then point your browser or cd in a terminal to /mnt/cdrom

the files should be there

[fishfish]

I'm not running on the CD.... it wont show whats on the CD.
And i tried "mount dev/cdrom"....... It says "mount: can't find dev/cdrom"
Please help, I need it to detect my cd drive.

thnx,
IPM

[fishfish]

I'm not running on the CD.... it wont show whats on the CD.
And i tried "mount dev/cdrom"....... It says "mount: can't find dev/cdrom"
Please help, I need it to detect my cd drive.

thnx,
IPM

[Napalm Llama]

It might be as well do delete that double-post there.

make sure you have the PRECEDING forward-slash in place, ie. mount /dev/cdrom - it's very important. It tells the operating system to look for the file from the root directory (called '/'), not from the directory you're currently in.

For good practise, never issue a command in the same folder by typing
~> executable_file

You should only do that if it's an installed program - try
~> lynx
for instance.

If you're running something that's in the same directory, you should put a ./ before it, like this:
~> ./executable_file

Hope I've been informative

[fishfish]

I tried "mount /dev/cdrom" and it says "mount: can't find /dev/hdc in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab"

hmm.... interesting. what does the "./" do?

IPM

[Vergil83]

I tried "mount /dev/cdrom" and it says "mount: can't find /dev/hdc in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab"

hmm.... interesting. what does the "./" do?

IPM

what does it say in your /etc/fstab

what the . does is if you are in /home/xxx and you want to go to /home/xxx/etc, and you type cd /etc it will take you back to /etc rather than /home/xxx/etc. the . will keep you where you are (it is hard to explain )

[fishfish]

It's working now.... dylunio helped me.
He told me to type "mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom" And that worked.


Thanx 4 helping,
IPM