Carl Nikolov wrote:

> Hi there!
> Linux newbie here
>
> I just installed Red Hat Fedora Core 3
> however i am trying to mount the CDROM drive (in KDE)
> but it does not work
>
> when I click on the desktop icon i get the message
>
> mount can't find /mnt/cdrom in /etc/fstab or etc/mtab
>
> so i thought, ok i'll run Xterm and check out my /dev folder...
>
> i looked in my /dev/ folder to find no 'file' named CDROM
>
hi

its /dev/cdrom - lower case.

do an ls /dev/cd*

and you should get something like

/dev/cdrom /dev/cdu31a /dev/cdu535 /dev/cdwriter

your file /etc/fstab should have a line like

/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,r

next look in /etc/sysconfig/hwconf

there should be a section like this

class: CDROM
bus: IDE
detached: 0
device: hdd
driver: ignore
desc: "LITE-ON LTR-52327S"

then look in /etc/modprobe.conf