[yyoung]

I am running Mandriva 9.0, and I am trying to upgrade. When I try to access the CD ROM, I receive the message, "Unable to enter file:/mnt/cdrom"

I have tried logging on as su and remounting with the following commands:

$ su -
password:admin
supermount i-disable
mount /mnt/cdrom

When I view the cdrom in File Manager file:/mnt the cdrom file has a lock on it. The ownership in the properties dialog box is User:root Group:root

Any other installation CD I put in works fine and this same CD that I am having trouble with, can be read when I put it in a Windows machine. The problem seems to be with this particular CD

Is this a permissions issue????

Y

[lotuseclat79]

Hi yyoung,

Welcome to TSG!

Mounting a drive requires several parameters, one of which is the mounting point (directory/folder) which associates the directory with the CD's file system, e.g. this is how I might mount my SATA hard disk drive Linux partition:
# mount -v -t ext3 /dev/sxxx /tmp/sxxx
where sxxx correspond to the device name of the particular partition that is output on the command: sudo fdisk -l

After issuing the above mount command successfully, I would then be able to see the contents of the directory at the mount point by issuing the command(s):
# cd /tmp/sxxx
and then
# ls
to get a directory listing of the hard disk at the mounting point.

This requires that you issue the following command as root:
# mkdir /tmp/sxxx
before issuing the mount command.

For mounting the CD drive - there are two on my system, /dev/cdrom and /dev/cdrom1, and /dev/scd0 and /dev/scd1 (Note: which one is used below).
I might have to issue the command if no automatic lauch for CDs is active:
# mount -v /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom1

It looks like to me, you should check out the mount point directory where your mount command will associate with the CD - and assure yourself that it exists first before issuing the mount command.

Also, read the man page for the mount command by issuing the command:
$ man mount

-- Tom