Actually, you helped me find the prize: just typing "/media/cdrom" did the trick. I had tried, "mount /dev/cdrom /cd iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide" as in the example in the "man mount" page, and was told the CDROM was already mounted. I'da never thunk it. Nick (the continually Linux proplexed) On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 18:09:03 -0500, David Bruzos wrote: Also, usually your distro makes a mount point for you to make things easier. Something like: /mnt/cdrom or /media/cdrom. So, you can type: mount /mnt/cdrom or: mount /media/cdrom Don't forget to unmount the CD before you take it out! Use the umount command to do this. You can also do: mount /dev/xxx /blah/blah Where /dev/xxx is your actual device and /blah/blah is the place where you want to mount it. Hope this helps! David Bruzos On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 05:43:07PM -0500, Terry D. Cudney wrote: > Hi Nick, > > Yes, you must "mount" the cd before you can access it..... somehting lie: > > mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdX /mountpoint > > where: > hdX is the device where your CDROM is physically connected, and > /mountpoint is a directory in your filesystem to mount the CDROM device on... > > see 'man mount' for details. > > --hth > > --terry > > On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 04:36:59PM -0600, W. Nick Dotson wrote: > > I've brailled and read Janina's advice to me about how to copy my "tar" and "gz" html document files. However, I'm still missing something with respect to > > accessing my cd-rom drive. I've tried such things as: > > "/dev/fdc" > > and > > "cd /dev/fdc" > > to no avail. Do I have to "mount" the drive first, to be able to access it, and see thefile names? Maybe, > > "mount /dev/fdc"? > > > > Nick > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -- > > Name: Terry D. Cudney > Phone: (705) 422-0039 > E-mail: terry at wasaga.dyns.net > > Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like... > having a peeing sectionin a swimming pool. > > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. > See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
