can't mount cdrom

Greg Rundlett greg at freephile.com
Sat Dec 7 12:16:43 EST 2002


Forgive me for being such a clueless Linux user.  But it should be 
easier than this.  I want to copy mp3 files from my cdrom to my hard 
drive, but I can't find the mounted files.

When I insert the cd, it *will* automatically play using KSCD, which is 
configured to use /dev/cdrom.  Somehow KSCD can find the files, but I can't.

If I try to browse to /mnt/cdrom, there is nothing there.  I've tried 
using the shell, and Konqueror.  Maybe I'm not looking in the right 
place, or maybe I don't understand how the CD filesystem is mounted. 
Any help would be appreciated.

If I close KSCD, and then issue the command (as root)
$ mount /dev/cdrom

This is the response:
 > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom,
        or too many mounted file systems


My /etc/fstab looks like this:
  LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults 
   1 1
  LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults 
   1 2
  none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620 
  0 0
  none                    /proc                   proc    defaults 
   0 0
  none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults 
   0 0
  /dev/hda3               swap                    swap    defaults 
   0 0
  /dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              iso9660 
noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
  /dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto 
noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0

I'm searching the linuxdocs.org site now.






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