On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 16:59:33 -0500,
Frank Conte <fconte@rcn.com> wrote:
> Bit Twister wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 04:26:48 GMT, Bit Twister wrote:
> > > 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
> >
> > For some more light reading
> > The Linux System Administrator's Guide
> > http://www.tldp.org/LDP/sag/html/index.html
>
> I'm still having a hard time mounting my ATAPI CD ROM
>
> I created a directory cdfrank
> I changed to cdfrank

I'm not positive if you can mount if the mount point is busy.

> I ran the mount command as such
>
> mount -t /dev/cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide,exec 00

su -c "mount -t iso9660 -o ro,user,noauto,unhide,exec /dev/cdrom /cdfrank"

> I got instead the mount help file. It didn't work.
>
> I also tried
>
> mount -t /dev/cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide,exec 00 /cdfrank
>
> What gives?

You didn't do Bit Twister's suggested reading.

BTW, please don't top post.

Michael C.
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