Moutning CD-ROM etc...

[JRT]

Okay, I got my dual boot setup tonight. I'm running Mandrake 8.0...

I run KDE because that's what everyone else seems to be using. When I logged on, it had a floppy icon, and mounted, but no CD-ROM. I checked HardDrake, and it recognized my CD-ROMS, but they didn't automatically mount. How do I go about doing this? I need to go in as root?

Thanks for any help,

JRT

[Malakin]

try "mount /mnt/cdrom" to mount it, and "umount /mnt/cdrom" to unmount it. CD contents will be accessible at /mnt/cdrom

You can right click on the desktop, create new, cd rom device, and use /mnt/cdrom for the device and mount point and that should work for you. Not sure why mandrake isn't setting up icons for everyone, mine had one already.

[João Figueira]

type su to switch you to root, mkdir /mnt/cdrom, then edit a file in etc dir. called fstab. add a line like this:

/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0

that will mount you cdrom on boot.

Good luck
João Figueira