How do I mount the CD?

ftornell · 2008-12-23 23:09:07

Just installed Archlinux and need to mount the cd to get the NIC drivers from the Motherboard CD.

How do I mount it?
And how do I keep mounting CD/DVD into same folder?

Noticed that there was already a:

/mnt
/media/cdrom
/media/dvd

Hints please!

tom5760 · 2008-12-23 23:11:53

You should be able to run:

    mount /media/cdrom

as root.

ftornell · 2008-12-23 23:14:46

just tried the mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom and it worked, how do I keep it forever at that mountpoint?

tom5760 · 2008-12-24 03:52:08

It should be in your /etc/fstab file (the installer puts it there by default). So you should only need to type

mount /media/cdrom

to mount it.

If you want auto-mounting of CDs, you can try thunar-volman, or gnome-volume-manager. There are a few options in the wiki.

If you want to use thunar (a lightweight file manager), install thunar and thunar-volman packages from pacman, and run

thunar --daemon

Then in thunar's settings, enable volume management. After this, CDs (and USB drives, etc) should automount in /media when you insert them.

.:B:. · 2008-12-24 10:02:54

ftornell wrote:

just tried the mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom and it worked, how do I keep it forever at that mountpoint?

Sorry pal but this is *very* basic wiki stuff.

We do appreciate some user initiative here .

Mr.Elendig · 2008-12-24 13:23:21

ftornell wrote:

Just installed Archlinux and need to mount the cd to get the NIC drivers from the Motherboard CD.
How do I mount it?
And how do I keep mounting CD/DVD into same folder?
Noticed that there was already a:
/mnt
/media/cdrom
/media/dvd
Hints please!

What motherboard and nic is it?

Arch Linux

#1 2008-12-23 23:09:07

How do I mount the CD?

#2 2008-12-23 23:11:53

Re: How do I mount the CD?

#3 2008-12-23 23:14:46

Re: How do I mount the CD?

#4 2008-12-24 03:52:08

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#5 2008-12-24 10:02:54

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#6 2008-12-24 13:23:21

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