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[ILUG] accessing CD-ROM drive

[ILUG] accessing CD-ROM drive

Wesley Darlington wesley at blackstar.co.uk
Mon May 29 19:14:54 IST 2000


Hi,

On Sun, May 28, 2000 at 11:15:21PM +0100, Adrian O'sullivan wrote:
>         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?

Try u(n)mounting the cdrom...

    umount /dev/cdrom

Wesley.




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