[ILUG] IDE cdrom problem

[Conor Daly]

On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 09:59:43AM +0000 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Conor Daly thought:
> On Sun, Feb 18, 2001 at 01:00:29PM -0000 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
> Patrick Kiernan thought:
> > I've just installed redhat 6.2. In X a link to my cdrom is not on my desktop
> > and I can't mount it. When loaded redhat the kernel sees it tho, any ideas?
> > it's an standard 4x IDE cd-rom.
> > 
> First you need to check your /etc/fstab and look for a line something like
> 
> /dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              iso9660 noauto,user,ro 0 0
> 
> It might begin with something like "/dev/hdc" but the default RH6.2 installation 
> is to /dev/cdrom which is a symlink to the actual device.
> 
> Next you need to do a 
> 
> mount /mnt/cdrom
> 
> from a console with a cd in the drive which should mount the CDROM.  As for 
> having an icon on the desktop, that depends on your window manager and, as I 
> don't use such things, I'm not sure how that's done.
> 
In KDE, right-click on the desktop and select New -> File System Device
and fill in the blanks there.
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