New Music CDs and Linux?

[pll at lanminds.com]

In a message dated: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 12:25:53 PST
Michael Costolo said:

>This weekend I purchased two music CDs.  I tried to listen to each of them in 
>my Linux box at home without success.  I attempted to open the cd by clicking the
>desktop icon but got errors like "you do not have permission to enter
>/mnt/cdrom." 

If they're CDDA format (i.e. music CDs, then you can't mount them; 
they have no mountable file system on them.

Make sure the /dev/cdrom (or whatever your device is) has the proper 
permission of 444:

	chmod 444 /dev/cdrom
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Seeya,
Paul
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