You're doing a
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
is that correct?
You need to use "su root" in a terminal window and login to mount your
cdrom.
Chris Desjardins wrote:
> Hi- I tried to mount a data cd and it told me that it could not mount
> /mnt/cdrom because /dev/cdrom is not a block device! Does anyone know
> what this means and how I can fix it? I am screwed right now because
> I can't use my cdrom drive at all and my good friends at Dell only
> included one drive on this!
> Also when I try to mount from my normal user ID it tells me only root
> user can mount cds.
> Thanks,
> Chris
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