Saturday, November 17, 2012

Mounting a DVD Drive in Fedora 15


The way you mount the DVD drive on Fedora 15.

1.  Find out what bus your DVD drive is running on... cdrecord -scanbus
Here's an example:

[root@localhost dev]# cdrecord -scanbus
scsibus0:
0,0,0   0) *
0,1,0   1) 'LITE-ON ' 'DVD SOHD-167T   ' '9QSJ' Removable CD-ROM
0,2,0   2) *
0,3,0   3) *
0,4,0   4) *
0,5,0   5) *
0,6,0   6) *
0,7,0   7) *

2.  Create a directory in the /mnt directory for the drive you want to mount if one does not exist.   Use this command:  mkdir /mnt/dvd

3.  Mount the DVD drive using this command: mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/dvd
Note:  the number 1 corresponds to 1 in bold.  If the DVD drive was in position two the command would be: mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/dvd

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