[sllug-members]: Newbie Question

[Matthew Hatch]

The filesystem should be iso9660, but this is usually autodetected.

Usually SUSE will detect USB optical drives as a variant of /dev/sr*. 
After plugging in the drive and typing 'dmesg', at the bottom it should 
show which 'sr*' device it was assigned to.  If it's only 
/dev/usbdev4.7, then issue 'mount /dev/usbdev4.7 /<mountpoint>' (put a 
'-t iso9660' at the end if it whines).

Another thing you may wish to try:  Plug in the DVD drive, enter your 
GUI (be it KDE or GNOME) and insert a CD without trying to mount it 
manually.  More often than not, your desktop manager will prompt you 
saying a CD was inserted and give you the option of mounting it.

-Matthew

Adam Barrett wrote:
> Excellent, thanks!
> 
> One last question, when I do mount I will do
> 
> mount /dev/usbdev4.7 /meida/drivenamehere
> 
> what should the filesystem type be for a CD/DVD? or does it matter?
> 
> On 7/28/06, *Andrew Johnson* <tehlaser at gmail.com 
> <mailto:tehlaser at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hmm... never done that on SuSE before.  Try this: unplug your drive,
>     run 'tail -f /var/log/messages' (you may need to be root) then plug
>     it back in.  That will let you know if your drive is being detected
>     at all, and may tell you which device it is.  Ctrl-C will stop the
>     command.
>      
>     Next, unplug your drive, run 'ls /dev/sr* /dev/scd* /dev/usb*', then
>     plug it in, wait 10 seconds or so, and run the same command again. 
>     Anything that appears in the second command that wasn't there in the
>     first is probably the drive.  Try mounting that device somewhere and
>     see if you can read the files on the disc there.
> 
>      
>     On 7/28/06, *Adam Barrett* < dragen at gmail.com
>     <mailto:dragen at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Apologies - let me give more detail.
> 
>     I am trying to connect a USB external DVD-RW (I just realized its
>     DVD) to my Linux box. I am running SuSE 10.0.
> 
>     To my understanding the drive should be autodetected and added to my
>     /media
> 
>     However, it is not, and I am not sure how to go about mounting it, I
>     can't seem to find any documentation (in english) that explains
>     where the device is to be found, and how to make it readable.
> 
>     I am new to using Linux, this is my first major attempt. 
> 
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