Mounting the CD-ROM device
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1. Link /dev/cdrom to the block device driver which corresponds to your CD-ROM drive.
# dmesg | grep ROM media bay 0 contains a CD-ROM drive hdc: MATSHITADVD-ROM SR-8171, ATAPI CDROM drive hdc: ATAPI 20X DVD-ROM drive, 512kB Cache Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56 # # ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom 2. Tell your /etc/fstab about the CD-ROM. The file system table, or fstab, keeps a list of devices and their respective mount points. To let Linux know about the CD I've added the following line. What does it say? Mount the device /dev/cdrom at /cd, using the ISO 9660 file system type. user allows anyone to mount the drive; ro means read-only; noauto means to wait until a user does the mount, as opposed to automatic mounting upon startup. /dev/cdrom /cd iso9660 noauto,ro,user 0 0 3. Have your .cshrc file remember how to do the mount command. I always forget how I do things, so I use my C shell run commands (.cshrc) file to remember them for me. Here's what I added so I could just type "cdr" and have the CD-ROM mounted on Linux's file system at /cd.
set CD-ROM_MOUNT_POINT = /cd
set CD-ROM_DEVICE = /dev/hdc
alias cdr mount -r ${CD-ROM_DEVICE} ${CD-ROM_MOUNT_POINT}
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