Re: where'd my cd go?
Isn't the mount parameters usually:
mount -t filetype device mntpoint?
In any case, if you have a whole bunch of windows cds, perhaps they are
joliet cds?
Have you tried just mounting it WITHOUT a file type, or using vfat?
mount -t vfat /dev/hdc /cdrom
"Richard E. Hawkins Esq." wrote:
>
> Unless my memory has faded even more, a possibility I won't rule out, I
> used to be able to mount cd's with
>
> mount /dev/hdc /cdrom -t iso9660
>
> I now get,
>
> mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc,
> or too many mounted file systems
> eyry:/home/hawk# mount /dev/hdc /cdrom -t iso9660
> mount: block device /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdc,
> or too many mounted file systems
>
> Have I forgotten something?
>
> I've tried this with my imsl documentation disk, and a couple of
> windows disks.
>
> I just bought a gaggle of windows programs for the kids as the local
> dollar store had them for .99 and 1.99, and I need to get them off the
> cd's and onto the laptop. Preferably to run under dosemu and windows .
> . .
>
> (hey, my 7 year old can use linux. And preferred linux games like
> xjewel to the fancy windows stuff. I'm trying to keep her sheltered as
> long as possible, and not have to explain the ugly facts of the real
> world--like microsoft :)
>
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