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How to Access Your CD-ROM in Linux

Here's a very quick exercise for you to do. More information concerning the all-important CD-ROM, will follow very soon.

1. Log-on as root.

2. Enter > startx

3. Insert a CD-ROM into drive.

4. To mount your CD-ROM drive i.e. make it accessible - enter the following at the command-line (making sure you select the correct IDE controller (see key below)):

mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom

Key :
      hda --> Primary Master	(Usually the hard-drive.)
      hdb --> Primary Slave	(Usually the CD-ROM drive.)
      hdc --> Secondary Master
      hdd --> Secondary Slave

5. Enter > cd /mnt/cdrom

6. Enter > ls to list the contents of '/mnt/cdrom'.

Laurence Hunter
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