mount CD drive

Forum: Other Help Topics
Topic: mount CD drive
started by: gekkokid

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Posted by gekkokid on April 02 2004,08:45

hi, i am planning on using my old laptop as a web server in my deskdraw for sharing random files (southpark, open office and maybe this dsl distro), and wondered if i could mount my cd drive cos this would double the amount of files i could share, the cd rom is a giga-slow 6 speed but i dont mind that!

can I mount the CD drive into the public wwwroot folder (not sure if thats what it is called)?

any help would be gratefully apprecited

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Posted by cbagger01 on April 02 2004,18:32

Using the 'mount' command, you are allowed to mount a CDROM anywhere in your filesystem.  For example, from command prompt:

mkdir /home/damnsmall/my_cd_is_here
mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom  /home/damnsmall/my_cd_is_here

Hopefully I did not make any mistakes with the syntax, but you should be able to figure out the general idea.

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Posted by gekkokid on April 02 2004,19:17

thank you

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