mount error

[Rick Stevens]

Bob McClure Jr wrote:
> On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 08:50:55AM -0700, Pedro Morales wrote:
> 
>>--- Bob McClure Jr <robertmcclure at earthlink.net>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 09:57:29AM -0700, Pedro
>>>Morales wrote:
>>>
>>>>--- Bob McClure Jr <robertmcclure at earthlink.net>
>>>>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 07:58:50AM -0700, Pedro
>>>>>Morales wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>--- Bob McClure Jr
>>>
>>><robertmcclure at earthlink.net>
>>>
>>>>>>wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 05:47:09AM -0700,
>>>
>>>Pedro
>>>
>>>>>>>Morales wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>im pretty sure it's a simple and noobish
>>>>>
>>>>>question,
>>>>>
>>>>>>>but
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>im trying to mount a cdrom I burned at
>>>
>>>home,
>>>
>>>>>and I
>>>>>
>>>>>>>get
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>the error: "mount: not a directory", so im
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>wondering
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>do I have to copy everything inside a
>>>>>
>>>>>directory
>>>>>
>>>>>>>then
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>burn the directory?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>im using my "mount /mnt/cdrom" in my root
>>>>>
>>>>>shell.
>>>>>
>>>>>>>Two things are required for that to work:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>- /mnt/cdrom must exist as a directory.  "ls
>>>
>>>-ld
>>>
>>>>>>>/mnt/cdrom" to see if
>>>>>>>  it's there.  "mkdir /mnt/cdrom" if it's
>>>
>>>not.
>>>
>>>>>>it's there
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>- There must be an entry in /etc/fstab that
>>>>>
>>>>>looks
>>>>>
>>>>>>>something like this:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>/dev/cdrom      /mnt/cdrom     iso9660
>>>>>>>noauto,owner,ro 0 0
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I have
>>>>>> /dev/cdrom       /mnt/cdrom     udf,iso9660,
>>>>>>noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
>>>>>>
>>>>>>and the cd im trying to read is the vmware I
>>>>>>downloaded, so the cd has only files no
>>>>>
>>>>>directories at
>>>>>
>>>>>>all.
>>>>>
>>>>>What happens if you
>>>>>
>>>>>  mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
>>>>
>>>>got the following error:
>>>>/dev/cdrom: Input/output error
>>>>mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected,
>>>>mounting read-only
>>>>/dev/cdrom: Input/output error
>>>>mount: you must specify the filesystem type
>>>
>>>I'd say there is something wrong with the way you
>>>burned the CD.  If
>>>you can mount any other CD without tears, then that
>>>is nearly
>>>certain.  You may find you need to burn at a slower
>>>rate.
>>
>>remade the cd with the slowest speed the burner could
>>give, and still the same problem, even tried a cdrom I
>>mounted before and it couldn't.
> 
> 
> Then your CD drive may be bad.

Or he's missing the "iso9660" filesystem module.  Pedro, run this
command:

	cat /etc/filesystems

and verify that "iso9660" is listed in there.  If not, somehow your
kernel doesn't have that built in.  Your kernel should have iso9660 and
ext2 built it...the others may be built in or done via modules located
in "/lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/fs"

> 
> Cheers,


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