[Leaplist] How to Mount a Blank CD ??

[Jesse Rhoads]

William,

If you are simply looking to copy files from pc to pc, get a USB stick 
drive.  You will be able to mount and copy files to them much more easily.

I think where you are getting hung up is that CD's are generally not 
mountable media until there is a filesystem written on them.   If it is 
a CD-RW or DVD-RAM you can format with UDF filesystem (mkfs -t udf 
/dev/cdrom), but for plain CD-Roms it is a one-shot write, so you will 
want to create an image and burn the image.  This is a waste to use a CD 
for just one file.  Read the manuals for mkisofs and cdrecord - these 
command line utilities can create an image and burn CD's for you.  There 
are also various programs in  X.org but I dont know which one FC uses.

Best Regards,
Jesse Rhoads


William H. Ferguson wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
>
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