can't mount cdrom

[Greg Rundlett]

Thanks for your replies.  It turnss out the disk *is* CDAudio.

The friend who gave me the CD said it was mp3 files. As I'm not 
accustomed to burning copies of .cda files, I never thought that the 
disk could have .cda files on it.  It did.  So in essence, it was like a 
  store-bought CD.

I never knew that Linux wouldn't read that format without ripping the 
files with CDParanoia or some such utility.  I know that there is every 
sort of converter under the sun, but how come Linux won't just recognize 
the .cda file format?  After all, KSCD and other players will recognize 
it.  CDParanoia recognizes the format, how come a full-blown GUI install 
of Linux doesn't recognize CDAudio?

Well, I'm off to download CDParanoia and rip my cda to mp3.   Oh heck, 
maybe I'll take this opportunity to figure out OggVorbis, and get past 
the mp3 licensing issues.

Thanks again.

- Greg

Greg Rundlett wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
>