Wait a second, I need some clarification, whenever I play a cd I just stick it in then take it out when I'm done. I do no mount or umount. Why isit I don't do any of this and when is this necessary. In my case, I can only read not write to cdes. ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Bruzos" <david@xxxxxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2005 4:09 PM Subject: Re: Accessing my CD-Drive > 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
