Thanks Matthew and John,<br><br>I am very sorry to be asking such stupid questions, but I am a complete beginner to linux.<br><br>I have managed to mount my cdrom drive using the following command line<br><br>mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom0/
<br><br>but I was not able to see the cd drive on my desktop. On the Gnome desktop I get both the home directory and the the cd drive icons but on the KDE I could not find this. I tried looking through the desktop configuration but it does not give the option of displaying this. Could you help me out with this as well?
<br><br>Thanks again,<br>Israel.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/28/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Matthew Woehlke</b> <<a href="mailto:mw_triad@users.sourceforge.net">mw_triad@users.sourceforge.net</a>> wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Israel Goitom wrote:<br>> I am not sure if I should be expecting this in Linux,<br>
<br>In most UNIX OS's (including Linux), you need to "mount" devices before<br>you can use them. This includes hard drives, optical media (e.g.<br>CD-ROM's), USB drives (external hard drives, flash drives, etc.) and so
<br>on. Until you start installing/removing hard drives you don't need to<br>worry about those, as they are mounted for you at boot time... as well<br>as any other media that happen to be present (i.e. I'm guessing this is
<br>why you can see a disc that is in your computer at boot time).<br><br>> but when I started<br>> using the KDE desktop I started noticing that if I boot the machine with a<br>> CD in I can read it, but once I remove the cd and replace it with another
<br>> one, I can not see it at all.<br>><br>> How do I get to see my CD after I have put it in the cdrom?<br><br>In KDE there is usually an icon on your desktop for removable media the<br>system knows about, e.g. optical drives ('cd-rom', 'dvd' or similar),
<br>also e.g. any flash drives your system knows about. If you right-click<br>on these you should get a 'mount'/'unmount' option. You should also<br>unmount devices before removing them (for optical drives you usually*
<br>cannot remove the disc until you unmount the drive) to ensure that all<br>data has been fully written.<br><br>(* the 'eject' option does the unmount for you... and also ejects the<br>disc, of course :-).)<br><br>
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