Hi there!
Linux newbie here 

I just installed Red Hat Fedora Core 3
however i am trying to mount the CDROM drive
but it does not work

i get the message

mount can't find /mnt/cdrom in /etc/fstab or etc/mtab

i looked in my /dev/ folder to find no 'file' named CDROM

can anyone help? thanks a lot!

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carl aliceinchains_@hotmail.com waffled to linux.redhat.misc :

> Hi there!
> Linux newbie here 
>
> I just installed Red Hat Fedora Core 3
> however i am trying to mount the CDROM drive
> but it does not work
>
> i get the message
>
> mount can't find /mnt/cdrom in /etc/fstab or etc/mtab
>
> i looked in my /dev/ folder to find no 'file' named CDROM
>
> can anyone help? thanks a lot!

How are you trying to mount it, from a gui or command line ?

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Well initially I'm going through the GUI, KDE
just clicking on the 'cdrom' icon

just to see what's going on....to see what kind of error message it gives
me.

then i run Xterm through 'run' just to browse around..when i noticed in the
/dev/ folder

my cdrom 'file' isn't even there...
i typed floppy while in the /dev folder and it gave me a list of options,
i'm guessing that when linux installs i should have a similar 'file' called
cdrom but... nothing's there!

i'm just guessing that the /hdc refers to the secondary IDE port connection
on my motherboard..

maybe i should re-install? what do you think? i find this rather odd i just
installed it
it should work!  

thanks again!

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<=> I just installed Red Hat Fedora Core 3
<=> however i am trying to mount the CDROM drive
<=> but it does not work
<=>
<=> i get the message
<=>
<=> mount can't find /mnt/cdrom in /etc/fstab or etc/mtab
<=>
<=> i looked in my /dev/ folder to find no 'file' named CDROM

Didn't FC3 move the removable media to the new /media folder? So, if you
pop in a CD, and type in mount /media/cdrom, it should mount your CD. In my
fstab file, the cdrom's entry looks like this:

/dev/hdc                /media/cdrom            auto
 pamconsole,exec,noauto,fscontext=system_
u:object_r:removable_t,managed 0 0

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carl aliceinchains_@hotmail.com waffled to linux.redhat.misc :

> Well initially I'm going through the GUI, KDE
> just clicking on the 'cdrom' icon
>
> just to see what's going on....to see what kind of error message it gives
> me.
>
> then i run Xterm through 'run' just to browse around..when i noticed in
> the /dev/ folder
>
> my cdrom 'file' isn't even there...
> i typed floppy while in the /dev folder and it gave me a list of options,
> i'm guessing that when linux installs i should have a similar 'file'
> called cdrom but... nothing's there!
>
> i'm just guessing that the /hdc refers to the secondary IDE port
> connection on my motherboard..
>
> maybe i should re-install? what do you think? i find this rather odd i
> just installed it
> it should work!  
>
> thanks again!

Yes it should, haven't tried fc3 yet, maybe that's a reason not to 
Fc2 runs like a dog on this old dear so have decided to stick with fc1.
However what I do and it may help you should you decide to reinstall.
I don't install automount. I mostly use the cdrom drive from the command
line. Fc1 uses /mnt/cdrom as the directory it mounts to.

Have a look at your /etc/fstab file it may give you a clue as to where the
cdrom is mounted. eg in my case /mnt/cdrom.

I go to the mount directory and type mount cdrom dor instance. I realise
from an earlier post that FC3 probably won't work this way, but have a look
at the fstab file and see if it shows it's new mount point and try
something similar.

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carl aliceinchains_@hotmail.com wrote:

> i find this rather odd i just
> installed it
> it should work!Â_Â_

Yes well thats RH-Fedora crowd for you, they have a vested intrest in
supplying broken kde distributions and they have so far on all FC releases.

Of course Gnome works just fine...

Anyhow get rid of your icons and right-click on the desktop and add new
device CDroms. Choose appropriately
hda = hard disk
hdb = slave of ide chanel1
hdc = master of ide2
hdd = slave of ide2
If you only have one CD it is usually /dev/hdc

You can then click on these icons to mount/open or eject

andrew

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Thanks for posting that line from your /etc/fstab.  I was having the same pr
oblem as the original poster. Since my laptop has a cd burner the HAL daemon
 or kudzu (I suppose) had detected that device and produced a line for /medi
e/cdrecorder that was cinsiderably different .  After plugging in your line;
 it works just fine now.

THANKS!

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