mounting the cdrom

No auto detecting for my 700mb cd here. Here’s the unix guru’s way of doing it:

mount -t auto -r /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

“-t auto”: “-t” is the flag which refers to the filetype, which in this case is “auto” which means , let linux do that automatically.
“/dev/cdrom”: implies what sort of device it is
“/mnt/cdrom”: tells the system where to mount it. You will be able to access the contents of your cdrom by opening this directory

dont forget to unmount the thing after you are done with it:

umount /mnt/cdrom

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