Mounting CDROMsForum: User Feedback Topic: Mounting CDROMs started by: sankarv Posted by sankarv on July 05 2006,09:06
I am using DSL 2.4. I remember in versions upto 1.5 and all, CDROM mounting is present along with file system mount tool itself. but now its missing. how to access my cdroms. also they are not automounted. help in this issue.
Posted by mikshaw on July 05 2006,14:16
I don't know why the cdrom would be available before but not now. Have you changed your drives? Did you install DSL in a different fashion? What type of cd drive(s) do you have? Are you runing DSL as a live CD? What messages, if any, do you get when you run the command mount /dev/cdrom or mount /dev/cdrom1 from a terminal (with a proper CD in the drive)?CDrom drives are never automounted in DSL, and probably never will be. You could probably try installing a utility such as supermount that will monitor your drives and mount them when media is inserted. Still, if your drive cannot be manually mounted yet, I doubt it will work until you get that problem fixed. Posted by sankarv on July 06 2006,09:44
The mount for CD option is present with mount tool in Live CD but its not there in HD intalled DSL. How to activate/ solve this issue. This problem is also present in DSl 2.0
Posted by brianw on July 06 2006,17:35
The cdrom does not show up in the mount tool becuase the mount tool looks in the /etc/fstab file for lines containing mnt in them. To fix this for myself I added a comment to the end of lines in the fstab file which simply had #mnt at the end./dev/fd0 /floppy vfat defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=022 0 0 #mnt /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0 #mnt now the mount tool shows them with no problems. Posted by sankarv on July 12 2006,10:08
Even after changing this in /etc/fstab CDROM does not appear in Mount tool. I even restarted the system and checked once again. Im using DSL 2.4 Mounting and Unmounting through commands is perfectly working. Posted by ron on July 12 2006,12:30
I have full HD (not Frugal) install. It was easy to mount the CD-ROM drive. I did it like your attempt, but the path I used was different. From the terminal: mount /cdrom and that's all. I can then access the contents of CD-ROM within Emelfm, under /cdrom. It appears that /dev/cdrom or /dev/auto/cdrom will not mount the drive. Posted by brianw on July 13 2006,01:11
The instructions I gave were for an HD install and I use nofstab on the boot line to prevent my fstab file from being over written each time. If you are using frugal or liveCD then the fstab will be over written. Are you restoring the fstab file (check it to make sure your changes are still there). Posted by sankarv on July 13 2006,03:43
Actually i dint gave any boot options. Inside DSL the contents of the /etc/fstab file is edited and then saved. But the mont tool is not updated.
Posted by brianw on July 13 2006,15:18
Not sure what is going on because I can edit my fstab file, save it, and open the mount tool and the changes are there (if you have the mount tool already open you must close it to get it to see the changes). If I go back in and undo my changes and open the mount tool again the changes are there, I can do this as many times as I want and each time I open the mount tool again the changes are visible. Do you have an HD install or a frugal install? Not sure if it makes a difference or not but it may help to know. Posted by mikshaw on July 13 2006,21:43
If you want changes made automatically to fstab, have them done from /opt/bootlocal.sh. This will make the changes before dsl logs in, and before the mount tool is opened.
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