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Re: Hello first time - I have a problem with mounting cdrom



"Mateusz" wrote:
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  >I have just installed Debian 2.2 and
  >I have some problemm with mounting my CDROM=20
  >My Debian send me some message, but I don't understand it, I have a =
  >short journey with Debian , so I'm unexperience ;-))))
  >The message is:
  >
  >mount:  /dev/cdrom  is not a block device
  >
  >I wrote a command :
  >mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
  >
  >before I created /mnt/cdrom
 
Do `ls -l /dev/cdrom'; what do you see?  It should be either a raw device
(the first character in the line will be `b') or a symbolic link (first
character is `l'), like this:

olly@linda$ ls -l /dev/cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            3 Jan 18  2000 /dev/cdrom -> hdb
olly@linda$ ls -l /dev/hdb
brw-rw----    1 root     disk       3,  64 Jun 23  1998 /dev/hdb

If (common case) your CDROM is an IDE drive which is master on the second 
controller, it will be called /dev/hdc.

In that case, what you should have done was:

 # ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom
 # mkdir /mnt/cdrom
 # mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

If your drive is somewhere else, you will have to link the appropriate
device to /dev/cdrom or use the appropriate device directly in your mount 
command.

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