Mounting CDs

[Jay Turner]

On Sun, Mar 07, 2004 at 07:37:50PM -0500, Brian Hartman wrote:
> Hi, Everyone.
> 
> I've got what I hope is a simple question.  I can't seem to get my CD-
> ROMs mounted.  If I type:
> 
> mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom 
> 
> I'm presented with this error:
> 
> mount: block device /dev/cdrom1 is write-protected, mounting read-only
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom1,
>        or too many mounted file systems

There's a chance that the filesystem on the disc you're trying to mount
isn't iso9660.  You might want to just try

mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

and let the system attempt to determine for itself what the filesystem on
the disc is.  And as someone else pointed out, you should check to ensure
that the device you're attempting to mount is indeed "/dev/cdrom"  One of
the easiest ways to do this is to run "eject /dev/cdrom" and see what drive
pops out.

- jkt

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