[SLUG] Debian SIG: Mounting CD's.

["Adam F. Bogacki" <afb3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Sluggers !

I know that this is rather basic, but I am having some trouble installing
software from CD in Debian.

Recently I tried to install WordPerfect from the "WordPerfect for LINUX
Bible", 1999, IDG Books Worldwide, using their instructions. I decided to
put it into /var as it was the largest partition on that drive.

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Eora:/var# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only.
mount: mount point /mnt/cdrom does not exist

Eora:/var# ./install.wp

bash: ./install.wp: No such file or directory.

The result seems to be that I now have some 'wp*' files in /var but I never
acessed any onscreen instructions to install WP for Linux.

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Perhaps I should use

mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

but is that unique to RedHat ? Does Debian have another syntax ?

Adam Bogacki,
afb3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx