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[ILUG] mounting a cdrom again

[ILUG] mounting a cdrom again

Donncha O Caoimh donncha.ocaoimh at tradesignals.com
Wed Jun 28 17:45:53 IST 2000


Seeing that subject just brought back LAID and the memorable quote from
Dermot Conner:
"DOS will mount anything in sight. Linux however is more dignified about
it and will only mount when you ask it to."
http://www.linux.ie/quotes.html

Donncha.


"John P. Looney (Kate)" wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 07:42:11PM +0100, Adrian O'sullivan mentioned:
> >  I mounted my cdrom using the command,
> >                 mount /dev/cdrom
> >         which seemd to work (lots of whirring noises)
> >         and then mtab contained the line
> >                 /dev/hdb on /mnt/cdrom type iso9660 (ro)
> >         but i can't open the cdrom door. do i need to do anything
> >         else?
> >                 thanks, adrian o'sullivan
> 
>  Typeing "eject" will eject the CD, and umount it for you.




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