RH7.2 CD-Roms.

[Andrew Mathews]

Lee wrote:
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> Perchance you would like to enlighten us heathens as to the proper
> command to mount the CDROM and CDRW. I've tried mount -t fstab
> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom and got fstab not supported. 

The syntax is: mount -t filesystemtype /dev/hd? /mnt/mountpoint. You
can't use fstab as a filesystem type. It's a configuration file.
Substitute sd for hd if you're using SCSI drives.

>Mount -t vfat /dev/cdrom /mnt/dev get /dev not a block device. 

Is there really an entry in your /mnt directory called dev? Or is it
actually /mnt/cdrom?

>Try mount auto /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom get a shopping list of options. Pick one of them
> mount -t auto /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom and i get the not valid block
> device. If I go to free disk under the system menu the cdroms are listed
> as /dev/cdrom and /dev/cdrom1 with a mount point of /mnt/cdrom and a
> driver of iso9660.

You're confusing a filesystem type and a driver (better known as a
module in linux)
iso9660, vfat, ext2, xfs, etc. are filesystem types. You see these when
you issue the mount command by itself.
i82365,soundcore, 3c59x, are modules (drivers). You see these when you
issue the lsmod command by itself.
  
What is the output of "dmesg | grep hd" and your /etc/fstab?