To mount your CD-ROM drive, first, you (as root) need to add the following line to /etc/fstab:
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide |
Please make sure that you have a soft link from /dev/cdrom to whatever /dev/hd? your cdrom is (assuming you are using an ATAPI cdrom). You should see something like this when you "ls -l /dev/cdrom".
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Jul 28 22:21 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdb |
Last but not least, make sure a valid mount point exists for the cdrom to be mounted on, for example:
% ls -la /cdrom total 2 drwxrwsr-x 2 root cdrom 1024 Sep 14 1995 ./ drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 1024 Dec 1 21:00 ../ |
Now you can mount it from the command prompt by typing:
% mount /cdrom |
Or if you prefer, create a KDE device link to your cdrom and place it on your desktop. Clicking on it will automatically mount the drive for you. Okay, concerning the question of how to make a KDE device link to your cdrom, please look to KDE Help for the answers.
More information on mounting filesystems can be found by running man fstab and man mount respectively.