Can't read my cdrom...

[alan brown]

I’ve looked through previous posts on this topic and the advice I found was to run dmesg | grep cdrom to find out where my cdrom is plugged in (hdb) and I tried symlinking /dev/dcrom to /dev/hdb.  However, in the course of my experimenting I did rm –rf  on the /cdrom directory, which I believe was where my cd drive was mounted.  And I’m not sure what I need to do next to get things back in order.    The /etc/fstab file states that /dev/cdrom is mounted on /cdrom but I’m not sure what to do to get it re-mounted (if indeed it is unmounted)   Any help would be appreciated.  My problem is high level enough that I’ve not been very effective with my google searches.