uable to mount cdrom in rhel-5
 

In my system i installed rhel-5 with minimum installation (while installing it asking code &i skipped it )

I used the command "mount /media/cdrom"
it show's media not found ,but the connection of cdrom is perfect. so ,please reply me if anyone know's

Try:

I tried that command "mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom" and I get
"you must specify the filesystem type" so i tried
"mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom" and get
"mount: mount point /media/cdrom does not exist" This is in my
RHEL 5 install in my RHEL4 install the floppy and cdrom are already
in the /media directory.

Néstor :-)

Are you sure /media/cdrom exists? Try mounting in /mnt or elsewhere.

You are mounting as root aren't you?

Tes, I doing this as root. Yes, the /media directory exist. That is
the thing in rhel 4 it was automatic. I do not know hwat I did
different in rhel 5.

:-)

But you state that you are mounting on /media/cdrom, and mount is telling you that that doesn't exist. I have /media on CentOS5, but no /media/cdrom

Yes it tells me that it doe not exist when I try to mount it but I can do
'ls /' and see the media directory. I can do a 'ls /media/ and there is
no files under this directory. I then do a 'mkdir /media/cdrom' and after
this I do 'mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom' and it tell s me that it does
not exist.

Thanks,

Néstor

Forgot to mentioned that After the 'mkdir /media/cdrom' command I do 'ls /media' and I will see
the /media/cdrom directory.

:-)

did you try mounting to /mnt?

If it doesn't work, please copy and past output (don't paraphrase)

I thought that auto mounting to the /media directory was handled by a udev rule or nautilus. Isn't that the case? You should not be required to create a /media/cdrom directory.