[PLUG] CD mount

[Josh Guffin]

On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Jeff Parish wrote:

> Hi,
> I just loaded Mandrake 7.0 from scratch.  I have a CD with MSDOS format,
> and I want to read it in in Linux.  I have changed fs=iso9660 to fs=vfat
> in /etc/fstab and rebooted, but I still cannot read the CD.  I have also
> umount and mmounted, to no avail.  Is there another file I need to
> change iso9660 to vfat in?  What am I doing wrong?
> Jeff
> 

Do a `cat /proc/filesystems' to see if vfat is supported in the kernel.

If not, you need to recompile with vfat support (under the filesystems
menu).  If it is supported, just do a `mount -tvfat /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom'
substituting the correct device and mount points on your computer.

Good Luck,

Josh

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