>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! /dev/cdrom is usually just a symbolic link to the actual special block device file: % ls -al /dev/cdrom lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Aug 24 2003 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdd % ls -al /dev/hdd brw------- 1 root users 22, 64 Aug 24 2003 /dev/hdd The first character being a "b" means this is a special block device file. The major number is 22. The minor number is 64. For an ATA CD-ROM drive, the special block device file is usually: /dev/hdb (ATA Primary Slave device) /dev/hdc (ATA Secondary Master device) /dev/hdd (ATA Secondary Slave device) >Also when I try to mount from my normal user ID it tells me only root user >can mount cds. Change the cdrom entry in /etc/fstab as root to: /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 The user option will allow any user to mount and umount a CD. Sincerely, Ken Fuchs <kfuchs at winternet.com> _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list