[Leaplist] How to Mount a Blank CD ??

[William H. Ferguson]

Gentlemen (and ? Ladies):

As most readers who have been following the List messages have 
discerned, this supplicant  is struggling to learn how Partitioning is 
done correctly.

On a new LEK-built computer I installed Fedora Core 8.
Yes, I know that the final Release of Fedora Core 9 is planned for 
either today or tomorrow.
So that fact makes it a rather convenient and nice time for me to "play" 
with trying to re-configure the Default Partitioning now installed on 
the new machine.

Since quite a good number of Leaplist.org members have generously 
replied to my requests for help, and, since I have actually done some 
reading about Partitioning, I may now be better positioned to ask 
questions whose answers may ultimately lead to me ceasing to bug 
Leaplist.org Subscribers.

I now understand that "parted" is a software program which a 
knowledgeable User can employ to  alter/change/re-configure an existing 
Hard Drive Partitioning Table. For several reasons, among which are fear 
that I'll screw up my new Computer's Hard Drive so that nothing will 
make it operate smoothly again;  my own lack of confidence in software 
programs which I've never used --- and --- the fear that some keystroke 
I might use will cause the Computer to explode, I have not as yet used 
"parted."

But there's a further obstacle for me re "parted."
I downloaded Parted 1.8.8 to a DIFFERENT computer recently. That 
DIFFERENT (not the new one) computer also runs the Default version of 
Fedora Core 8. My new Computer does not have access to the Internet. So 
I don't have "parted" on the New FC-8 computer.

I want to copy the Downloaded Parted v. 1.8.8  program  to a CD. Then I 
would take it to the New FC-8 computer and have Parted on that machine, too.

Difficult as it likely seems to experienced Linux users, I often have 
trouble doing the copying of data to a CD. It sppears to me that 
sometimes when I insert a CD into my computer,
its drive's LED flashes a few seconds and then an icon for that CD 
appears on my Desktop or at least in the Panel of the Desktop screen.

It has seemed to me that if a CD I want to bring to the screen has data 
on it already, then such a CD is quickly loaded into my computer and its 
Icon appears either on the Desktop or more likely, in the Panel.

But if a CD  is a virgin with no data, a Blank CD,  I simply can't get 
that Blank CD to mount.
In such cases, nothing that I do enables me to activate the CD which I 
have put into its drive.

I don't know the proper command to mount a Blank CD.

I have tried at a command line screen the command   "mount /mnt/cdrom "

Usually this fails and Linux reports that  Linux "can't find /dev/cd-rom 
in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab."

The "/etc/fstab"  file is another one which makes me  tremble when 
thinking about altering it.
I know that one uses a text editor to write the data /etc/fstab needs 
for it to thereafter recognize a CD-ROM but I don't know the test to 
compose and put into /etc/fstab.

While I have several other questions relating to Parted and Partitioning 
I suspect I'm already using too much space on the List.

So I seek Guidance re how to mount a Blank CD so that I can copy 
"parted" to it from a working, internet-connected Compute running the 
Default version of Fedora Core 8.

Advice sought----Thank you.

William
Flagler Beach