cant mount drive

[Thornton]

> This looks fine and should work. What's more troubling is the the
> mount command complains about attempting to mount 'read and write'
> while clearly the fstab entry is 'ro'. That means that when you
> attempt to mount the CD the above entry is not read.
> 
> I am not sure where this is coming from. I noticed that you have NFSv4
> running so that might be the source of the problem somehow? Because
> you can give the identical command from a terminal

how can i disable nfsv? i only needed that when i was getting content off
my old system drives.

> mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom -t udf,iso9660 -o ro,noauto,owner,kudzu
> 
> after you insert a valid CD in the drive and it should work as you
> said. That mean that /etc/fstab is not read properly or is diverted
> somehow to somewhere else?

any ideas? i thought leaving windows i wouldn't have to do reinstalls
anymore but i'm starting to wonder if thats the next thing to do.

thanks for all your help though.