fstab files from other installations

[rickenbacherus]

# /etc/fstab: filesystem table.
#
# filesystem mountpoint type options dump pass
/dev/hda3 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/hda5 none swap sw 0 0

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/floppy /floppy vfat defaults,user,showexec,umask=022 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec 0 0
/dev/dvd /mnt/dvd iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec 0 0
# partitions found by Knoppix
/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ntfs auto,users,exec,ro,uid=knoppix,gid=knoppix 0 0
#/dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=000,uid=knoppix,gid=knoppi x 0 0
#/dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0
/dev/hda6 /mnt/hda6 vfat auto,users,exec,umask=000,uid=knoppix,gid=knoppix 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2 vfat noauto,users,exec,umask=000,uid=knoppix,gid=knoppi x 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX

You currently have these mount points right?
hda1 hda2 hda3 hda6 sda
You need to make some more mount points my friend. Look closely at your fstab- the format is like this:

filesystem mountpoint type

So, applying that to the following line from your fstab

/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec 0 0


/dev/cdrom is your filesystem

/mnt/cdrom is your mount point

iso9660 is the type

But you don't have /dev/cdrom OR /mnt/cdrom do you? You just need to make the symbolic link to your cdrom like this:

ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom
ls -al /dev/cdrom

What is /dev/cdrom really pointing to now? Post it please.

You also need to create the mount point /mnt/cdrom. fstab is trying to mount /dev/cdrom to a mount point that does not exist. That'll never work. As root, do this:

mkdir /mnt/cdrom
cd /mnt
ls

Now your mount points should look like this:
hda1 hda2 hda3 hda6 sda cdrom
Post your mount points please.

If everything above went smoothly now fstab will mount /dev/cdrom (which is actually /dev/scd0)on the mount point /mnt/cdrom.

If everything above went smoothly......
As root, do this:

mount -t auto /dev/cdrom
cd /mnt/cdrom
ls

Also let me remind you that you CANNOT mount an audio cd because it has no filesystem on it. Additionally, you can't mount an empty drive because............there's no filesystem in an empty drive either. So anytime you want to mount a cdrom you need to have a data cd in i the drive.