Re: Mounting CD Rom

[Chris Albertson <chrisalbertson90278@yahoo.com>]

--- John McKendry <jmckendry@attbi.com> wrote:
> Tom Droege wrote:
> > 
> > Can someone tell me how to mount a cdrom so that any user can get
> at it?  I
> > have figured out how to attach it to my particular user, but I
> would like
> > to make it available to all users. Running Mandrake 8.1. 
> Supermount does
> > not seem to work.  At least not the way I think it should.
> > 
> Tom,
> 
>  Behavior of 'mount' and 'umount' is governed by the entries in the
> file
> /etc/fstab. I have a Mandrake 8.1 system with this fstab entry for
> the CD-ROM:
> 
> /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom auto
> user,iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0

All the above is correct.  The example assumes an IDE CDROM
conected as a "slave" on the primary IDE controller. (That's
what the "/dev/hdb" is for. It is dev/scd0 on my system as I have
a SCSI CDROM rive)

Also notice that the CDROM is placed on "/mnt/cdrom" which is a
place accessable to all users.  Perhaps ypu are putting it some
place else? not on /mnt/cdrom? or /mnt/cdrom is not accessable?

All those options, the long comma seporated list is documented
on the man page for "mount".  Try "man mount"

Note the the mount command only __defaults__ to using the
information in the file /etc/fstab.  You can specify options
on the command line that take precedence

This problem points out the problem with using point and click
GUI tools on top of UNIX.  THere are some many of them that you
can't expect anyone to know what they do.  There must be 100 GUI
versions of "mount".  If you use just plain old "mount" at the
command line then people will know what is going on.  Is your
GUI mount program looking at the /etc/fstab like the command line
mount program does?  Who knows?  You can find out...

After mounting the CD typing  "df" will list the root directory of
all mounted devices.  Your CD should be there along with one or
more hard drive pertitions. Next look at the ownership and
permisions of the CD's root directory. "ls -l" will list it.

.




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