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Re: Mounting my cdrom



> Hello everybody,
> 
> I have installed slink and am trying to mount my cdrom. To mount the cdrom, I use the following command:
> 
>    mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt
> 
> This returns then following message:
> 
>    mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist
> 
> What is wrong here? Is /dev/cdrom not the correct device or is this an installation problem?

It means exactly what it says: there is no file/link in /dev/ called
cdrom. Where is your cdrom anyway? Is it a block device so that its'
/dev/hda-d? If so, just mount it by using /dev/hd? instead of /dev/cdrom.
ANdrew

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