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How can I define the 'mount' ?
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   why that sometimes I can't mount my cdrom so that I can access to my cdrom ?
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mount --help
man mount
the usage is typically:
mount /dev/hdc -t iso9660 /mnt/cdrom

if your cdrom is secondary master.
Primary master = hda, primary slave = hdb
Secondary master = hdc, Secondary slave = hdd
Remember, when mounting hard drives, you must also add the number of the partition, eg. /dev/hda5 -t vfat /mnt/winfiles

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Look up in your /etc/fstab file to make sure that non root users have permission to mount removable devices like CDs and floppy disks. (for the ocassional problem)
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/dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              iso9660 noauto,user,ro  0 0
in your /etc/fstab. The user option is to allow non-root user to mount your CD at /mnt/cdrom.
If you do things as root, you have almost all the permissions. If you act as ordinary user, you have a lot less rights to access
system resources, be that CDROM, modem, file systems, etc.
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/dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              iso9660 noauto,user,ro  0 0
in your /etc/fstab. The user option is to allow non-root user to mount your CD at /mnt/cdrom.
If you do things as root, you have almost all the permissions. If you act as ordinary user, you have a lot less rights to access
system resources, be that CDROM, modem, file systems, etc.
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