[CentOS] Inquiry:Problem in mounting external cdrom

Thu Sep 24 21:22:54 UTC 2009
Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com>

on 9-24-2009 1:48 AM hadi motamedi spake the following:
> Dear All
> I tried to mount an external cdrom on my CentOS 5 server but
> un-successful . I attached the device to my USB port and then the
> followings have been added to my /dev folder :
> "cdrom -> scd0
> cdrom-sr0 -> scd0
> cdrw -> scd0
> cdrw-sr0 -> scd0
> cdwriter -> scd0
> cdwriter-sr0 -> scd0"
> To this end , I tried to mount it as the followings (but it didn't get
> through) :
> #mount -t vfat /dev/cdrom-sr0 /mnt/cdrom
> Add the following line to /etc/fstab :
> 
> /dev/cdrom-sr0 /mnt/cdrom vfat noauto,users,noexec,rw, uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0
> 
> #mount /mnt/cdrom
> 
> Can you please do me favor and correct me for my mistakes in mounting it ?
> 
> Thank you in advance
> 
>> 
>> 
CD's are usually iso9660, not vfat. Try -t iso9660

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