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Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 11:10:36 +0300
From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramidi@otenet.gr>
To: rene@xs4all.nl
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Subject: Re: can't mount CDROM?
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On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 09:45:19AM +0200, rene@xs4all.nl wrote:
> bash-2.05$ ls /cdrom
> bash-2.05$ /sbin/umount /cdrom
> umount: /cdrom: not currently mounted
> bash-2.05$ /sbin/mount /cdrom
> cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Operation not permitted
> bash-2.05$ /sbin/mount_cd9660 /dev/cd0a /cdrom
> mount_cd9660: /dev/cd0a: Operation not permitted
> bash-2.05$ /sbin/mount_cd9660 /dev/acd0c /cdrom
> mount_cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Operation not permitted
> 
> hmmz can the CD inserted in my drive is OK; the windows box reads it just 
> fine. any ideas on how to debug this?

Try mounting as root.

If the prompt that I am seeing means that you are a simple user,
then try `su -' first to become root (or log as root in some console),
and try mounting /cdrom from a root shell.

--giorgos

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