On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 23:51:55 -0500, Frank Conte wrote:
> FSTAB is supposed to tell me which hard drive partitions are used up.
> I'm running Yellow Dog on a Mac Power PC.
> I'd like to mount the CD ROM by using the mount /dev/cdrom command.
> However I'm getting nowhere.
> Am I supposed to mount this CD ROM to a partitition? My boot up is hda9
> Can I take one that's unassigned, let's say hda4?

You create a mount point (mkdir) and mount the drive on that mount point.
Example for a scsi cdrom
/dev/scd0 /cdrom_nec iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide,exec 0 0
for an ide device
/dev/hdc /cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide,exec 0 0

For extra points
man mkdir
man mount
man umount
man fstab