[Leaplist] How to Mount a Blank CD ??

[Aaron Morrison]

One option is to use the gparted live cd:

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

--am

On 13 May 2008, at 09:44, 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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