> Mount: No Medium Found Problem

I've had a scout thru both this forum and the web but can't seem to find the solution.
I've read up on fstab (contents below) having added the final two lines and created the appropriate dirs in /media

I then tried
mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom
but get the error "No medium found"

I've checked and there definitely is a cd in dry.gif and it can be read from within windows (if that means anything).
and It is just a data cd.

Can anyone give a n00b some suggestions ?

Thanks
Smoggie.

/dev/sda2 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/sda3 /home ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/sda1 swap swap defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
/dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0

I've had a scout thru both this forum and the web but can't seem to find the solution.
I've read up on fstab (contents below) having added the final two lines and created the appropriate dirs in /media

I then tried
mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom
but get the error "No medium found"

I've checked and there definitely is a cd in dry.gif and it can be read from within windows (if that means anything).
and It is just a data cd.

Can anyone give a n00b some suggestions ?

Thanks
Smoggie.

/dev/sda2 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/sda3 /home ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/sda1 swap swap defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
/dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0
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From your fstab it would seem that it should automount.
If you brows to /media/cdrom with the cd in the drive do you see anything?
Also you could try with a different cd e.g. an audio cd and see if it automounts

/Geoff

From your fstab it would seem that it should automount.
If you brows to /media/cdrom with the cd in the drive do you see anything?
Also you could try with a different cd e.g. an audio cd and see if it automounts

/Geoff
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Argggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

To be fair I did point out that I was a n00b - I just neglected to point out that I was a complete muppet.....

I'm running it under VMWare (apologies - I should have mentioned that too) - which means that I have disabled autorun...which explains (I think) the no medium found. Solving that autorun problem meant that the mount worked....

Thanks for the reply - sorry if I've wasted your time.

Smoggie