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I am new to both VM and Ubuntu. I have successfully installed VM Workstation on XP, and then installed Ubuntu as a VM. I am unable to see disks in the CDROM drive (Windows see disks just fine). I have tried to mount /dev/cdrom and system returns "mount: no media found." When I try to see it via the GUI, I get a splash screen that says "Unable to mount location, no media in the drive." How can I be sure that Ubuntu actually sees the CDROM drive (as opposed to the CDROM icon being present in the GUI by default)? Or to be more accurate, how do I force Ubuntu to see the CDROM? If seeing the drive is not the issue, then how do I get Ubuntu to know that the CDROM drive has a disk in it?
Name: starsystemx Date: January 30, 2009 at 20:33:05 Pacific
Reply:
Nevermind, I figured it out. The problem was that the CDROM settings for my Ubuntu VM (in VM Workstation, not in linux) was set to use my Ubuntu ISO. I changed setting to auto-detect and everything is just peachy.
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