> Artur Correia wrote: > > OK, > As expected, ran into some more problems: > #1. How the hell do i see the contents of a cdrom? I've tried in the > shell mount /dev/hdb and mount /dev/cdrom, but i got a message saying > that that file was not in the file fstab or mtab... and, in fact, it > isn't. The starnge part is tha if i run dselect with the cd rom with > the debian distribution the program accesses the cd and install all > the packages from it? So, what do i do? > Desperately waiting for a solution, > AC > Tks
I believe you might need a more complete mount command, such as: mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb /cdrom and that you'll probably have to mount it as root (unless you do some other configuration stuff to allow normal users to mount it). The "/cdrom" part can be any existing directory, such as "/mnt" or "/my_cd_drive", but it must be a directory and it must exist prior to this command. (Sorry if this is "I already know all that stuff" language.) Also, most newer computers would have the CD-ROM drive on /dev/hdc (first drive on the second IDE port) rather than /dev/hdb (second drive on the first IDE port), so that might be an issue. Again, sorry if you already know this stuff and I'm just spouting noise.
