how to mount a cd-rw/dvd-rom drive

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Fri Apr 27 02:32:56 UTC 2007


Scott,
> The kernel probes it and find it as you said in /var/log/dmesg.  Then I
> go to mount it with mount /dev/hdc1 as the kernel probe shows to
> /dev/mnt and it says it needs to kinow the file system type which I do
> not know for dvd media.  As a side note this is a brand new drive.

>> mount /dev/hda /dev/mnt

In my example, did you see a "1"?

A cd or dvd normally doesn't have a file system in the HD sense.

Try

mount /dev/hdc /dev/mnt




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