Need help mounting the CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive

[daga5831]

Okie dokie...So I just installed slackware9.0 on my laptop. It's an emachines M5310. I've just spent the last little while trying to mount the combo drive. I know that the drive is /dev/hdc because that's where the installer found the cd when I was installing slackware. However, when I type mount /dev/hdc /mnt/dvd it says that I need to include a filesystem type. So I tried going with mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/dvd but that didn't work either.

I know that on my desktop I managed to mount the DVD drive, but that was a while back, and I don't remember what I typed to do that .

Little help? Please? Somebody? Anybody? I don't wanna be stuck with XP on my laptop, and I have to be able to use my drives.

 

[moorcito]

Are you using the standard install kernel, or a custom made one?

 

[PolyPill]

You can't mount a media dvd, so if it's a movie you just put it in and use the player

 

[mirko_3]

dvd doesn't use iso, it's udf, at least for data. is it in your kernel?
movies you can just play (mplayer dvd://1 i think)

 

[fiji]

also /dev/dvd wont work, unless its sym-linked to the actual device

ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/dvd (not good to make too many symlink chains though)

 

[SickBoy]

He was mounting /dev/hdc to /mnt/dvd, which should work just fine assuming the mount point exists. I think you got a little mixed up, fiji....

 

[SickBoy]

P.S. I just put my DVD drive in the fstab.

/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0

 

[daga5831]

Are you using the standard install kernel, or a custom made one?

I'm using the stock kernel. Does that really make a difference?