fail to mount CDROM

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Thu Apr 20 10:46:31 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 02:56 -0700, Nader Mirzaee wrote:
> When i try to mount CDROM there is an error window saying "unable to
> mount media there is probably no media in the drive " but the media is
> in the drive.

Do you have more than one disc to test with?

> i try to mount it with mount /mnt/cdrom it says mount : can't
> find /mnt/cdrom in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

Which distribution of Fedora are you playing with?  Since FC4, the
CD-ROM has been mounted at:  /media/cdrom or /media/cdwriter if it's a
burner.  It could also be named dvdrom or dvdwriter if it's a DVD drive.

> how can I edit fstab ?

With a text editor, as the root user.

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