Newsgroups: linux.redhat
Date: 2002-12-14 03:20:36 PST

> I tried to mount my cdrom, however, after I typed "mount -t iso9660
> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom" I found the following message come out,
>
> mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist

I suggest you run kudzu, which is a hardvare detector and should help you when you have new hardware installed on your system. If it don't help then you check up what the CD-Roms real device name is and use it instead of /dev/cdrom (which always is a symlink).

Most people choose to use the easy way and just type 'mount /mnt/cdrom', as the CD-Rom is usually part of the mountlist. But of course, there chould be problems if your CD-Rom drive is a USB device.

Aho