[Leaplist] How to Mount a Blank CD ??

[patrick]

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 always make a backup of /etc/fstab and call it a slightly different
name, or .bak

> 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.

I run K3B as the front end to my burning and copying of CD/DVD media.

It takes care of blanks, mounting, unmounting, in the project or tool
that I select from the toolbar.  Running a command line to burn or mount
has not been the norm with me...  I like a GUI environment. YMMV.

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

Funny... I believe the bandwidth is like 7 Terabytes, and storage is
huge... text messages range in the kilobytes ...  and there is no such
thing as a 'stupid' question.  It's how we learn, after reading all the
technobabble in the book...

> 
> 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.

Personally, I use any live CD, and click on install, which brings up the
partitioner.

I also carry about a liveCD called GPartEd, that boots in a live
environment, and permits full control of partitioning and formatting
any drive(s) for any x86 system.


 http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

or    http://livecdlist.com

> 
> William
> Flagler Beach
> 
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