Summary: mounting a cdrom?

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• Subject: Summary: mounting a cdrom?
• From: Jerry Chih-Yuan Yang <jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Sun, 12 Jun 1994 21:13:55 -0700
• Reply-To: jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

my original post
>
> 
> okay - maybe i have gone out of my mind,
> but i really don't remember/know how to
> mount a cd-rom partition.  i have dec 3000-400
> running DEC osf1/v2.0.
> 
> my cdrom:
> 
> # file /dev/rrz8c
> /dev/rrz8c:     character special (8/16386) SCSI #1 RRD42 disk #64 (SCSI ID #0) 
> i have dir called
> 	/cdrom
> 
> so i say (as in the man page)
> 
> # mount -r /dev/rz8c /cdrom
> /dev/rz8c on /cdrom: No valid filesystem exists on this partition
> 
> this happens with a couple of CDs that are supposed to be able to
> be readable on unix machines.
> 
> i have also tried with -t cdfs but with no success...
> 
> can someone pls tell me where i have gone awry?
> 

thanks to
	finocchiaro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
	helgi@xxxxxx

this is what i did to make it work:

(from John Finocchiaro)
... stuff deleted ...

The correct command to mount a 
CDROM from /cdrom is:

	mount -r /dev/rz8c /cdrom

For CDFS:

	mount -t cdfs /dev/rz8c /cdrom

If you do not have CDFS configured in your kernel, you will get the
error "No such device" when you attempt to mount -t.  If you do not
have cdfs in your kernel, add the line "options CDFS" to your 
configuration, run doconfig to create a new kernel, and then reboot.

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