[ale] Cannot mout cdrom drive

[Josh Bonczkowski]

mount /mnt/cdrom

not /dev/cdrom

On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Scott Nolde wrote:
>I asked this qustion in tonight' ALE meeting:
>"If I upgraded from RH5.2 to RH6.0 using the cdrom drive, why can't I
>mount it?"
>
>Here's the bash response:
>[root at smnolde scott]# mount /dev/cdrom
>mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom,
>       or too many mounted file systems
>
>[root at smnolde scott]# more /etc/fstab
>/dev/hda8    /            ext2    defaults        1
>/dev/hda1    /boot        ext2    defaults        1
>/dev/hdb5    /dl          ext2    defaults        1
>/dev/hdb7    /opt         ext2    defaults        1
>/dev/hdb1    /tmp         ext2    defaults        1
>/dev/hda5    /usr         ext2    defaults        1
>/dev/hdb6    /usr/local   ext2    defaults        1
>/dev/hdb8    /usr/src     ext2    defaults        1
>/dev/hda6    /var         ext2    defaults        1
>/dev/hda7     swap        swap    defaults        0
>/dev/fd0     /mnt/floppy  ext2    noauto          0
>/dev/cdrom   /mnt/cdrom   iso9660 noauto,ro       0
>none         /proc        proc    defaults        0
>
>
>I heard I might need to recomile the kernel with and added option...
>What is the option, and then how do I recompile (I'll look it up in
>LDP - don't answer this one).
>
>Thanks,
>Scott
>
>BTW - it was my first ale meeting and it was way cool.