How do you access a CD-ROM through Red Hat Linux 6.2? I have only installed Linux yesterday, so... I am not real clear about anything. :-)

Open the CD tray, stick your CD in the drive, close it, and then at a command prompt (terminal) enter: # mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom # cd /mnt/cdrom Then you can do an "ls -al" to view the contents. Some of the newer distributions will automatically recognize the CD and will pop up a window (in X-Windows) containing the contents of the CD (you may still have to mount it, though). If the mount doesn't work, you may have to try putting some parameters on that command to tell it what kind of filesystem it is. Enter "man mount" for further info on this. Also, your "/dev/cdrom" might not be set correctly. If that's the case, then reply back and we'll try to work through it. Good luck.

Just in case you got this working and want to remove the CD (without having to reboot), do this: # umount /mnt/cdrom

In the first time, try: # test -d /mnt/cdrom || mkdir /mnt/cdrom To mount cdrom: # mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom To umount cdrom: # umount /mnt/cdrom To eject cdrom: # eject

Yup. okay, thanks for your help!

If I try to unmount the drive, it says: "drive is busy"