how do i find the mnt point for my cdrom?

[xxundog69]

ok ok i know ive become that annoying newbie who wont stop asking stupid questions and should stick to windows, but i dont know anywhere else to go and you people have been very helpful so far. so here goes another one......

i have no idea how to intall a program. period.

in docs i have read it tells me to find the mnt point for my cdrom but i have no idea how to do this. (i.e. /mnt/xxx x=numbers)

please help cause i wanna get half-life and cs going..... baaad.

[epseps]

/mnt/cdrom

What I do to mount it is:

mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

then cd into /mnt/cdrom and 'ls' to see if you are there.

to unmount:
umount /mnt/cdrom (umount does not have an 'n')

[xxundog69]

nope im not there. after i type mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom it tells me:

mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom, or too many mounted fyle systems

i dunno what any of this means

[Hena]

Now that could mean that you have mounted one cd already. Try "umount /mnt/cdrom" and then try mounting again.

Another thing that might (or might not, i'm not sure) is what is in "/etc/fstab" file. I've got this (RH7.1)/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0And i'd quess that kudzu is Rh specific.

[ 11 March 2002: Message edited by: Hena ]

[xxundog69]

no all of that stuff should be the same for 'drake, i'll give it a try