connect to cdrom 2

[testman1]

How do you connect to a cdrom in ubuntu server. I'm new to Linux.
Thanks.

 

[BadBigBen]

mount(8) - Linux man page

http://linux.die.net/man/8/mount

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[testman1]

Are you saying:
mount -t iso9660
cd /cdrom
ls

Does the above allow me to see the files on the cd in the cdrom? There is a lot to read.

Thanks.

 

[Annihilannic]

That should more-or-less do it, however your mount command is missing two parameters; the device to mount and the location to mount it.

Try mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /cdrom (where /cdrom needs to be an existing directory.

Annihilannic.

 

[zeland]

I do not know if it is wise for us to move away from the nomenclature of /dev/cdrom, /dev/dvd etc as these are just symlinks to the actual devices. I've had situations where users have 2 or more optical devices. While the first one gets linked as /dev/cdrom the second one doesn't. I usually try to get users to use the sr[X] naming convention instead. But that too may one day come the way of hd[X] becoming part of sd[X] naming scheme. I personally would have preferred the convention of optical[X].

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