OT: mounting cd on Linux system

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, Oct 31, 2007, Scott Walker wrote:
>Is there an easy way to tell what the appropriate mount command is on
>any given Linux system.  I've started sending program updates on cd and
>it seems the mount command is different on different systems.

SuSE systems seem to have /dev/cdrom linked to the proper device
(assuming that there's only one CD).

CentOS too seems to have /dev/cdrom (and /dev/cdwriter on a
CentOS 4.5 system we have here).

A CentOS 5.0 system we have here which has a SCSI CD in addition
to the normal ATAPI drive has this:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Oct 26 10:32 /dev/cdrom -> scd0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 Oct 26 10:32 /dev/cdrom-hdc -> hdc
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Oct 26 10:32 /dev/cdrom-sr0 -> scd0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Oct 26 10:32 /dev/cdrw -> scd0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Oct 26 10:32 /dev/cdrw-sr0 -> scd0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Oct 26 10:32 /dev/cdwriter -> scd0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Oct 26 10:32 /dev/cdwriter-sr0 -> scd0

Many Linux systems will show the CD device on KDE or Gnome desktops.

One can also look at the ``dmesg'' output to see what it has to
say, presuming that it hasn't filled up since booting.

Bill
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