how to mount a cd drive

Philippe Landau lists at mailry.net
Wed Nov 3 16:06:29 UTC 2004


Arnold Maestre wrote:
>>after the drive worked in warty, i now get in hoary:
>>mount: mount point /media/cdrom0 does not exist
> Sorry for the pollution. To have it work before reboot, 
> just type in a terminal:
> sudo modprobe ide-cd
thanks, Arnold, and easy :-)

> Try and preload the ide-cd module during boot. Add
> 
> ide-cd
> 
> to your /etc/modules. This should load the module and convince udev to
> create the mount point for you. Alternatively, you can try and create
> the mount point manually, but I don't think it is such a good idea.
ide-cd is already listed in /etc/modules

kind regards     philippe




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