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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Joel Adria wrote:

> But! When I type mount /dev/hdd it says "device does not exist" or
>
> Please help me. I've kinda new to all this.

You are giving mount the location of the "raw" device.  It can't mount
that as a filesystem, which is what you need to do.  An fstab entry like
you've mentioned should look something like this:

------------------------------------------------
/dev/hdd   /cd   iso9660   user,noauto,ro  0  0
------------------------------------------------

This tells the system where the raw device is when you go to mount it.
But you give mount the mount point--/cd--not the raw device location.  The
rest of that line specifies the filesystem type, who can mount it, whether
it's automounted or not (at boot), whether it's a read only filesystem and
some numbers referring to fsck checking (I think).  Were your system to be
set up like this, you should issue

------------------
mount /cd
------------------

to mount that drive.  Does that make sense?

James