[School-GNU-Linux] Re: Cannot add CDROM with synaptic

sir,
  i received the error, "cd rom could not be mounted" during adding cd rom and 
the mounted cd disappeared.
  While opening cdrom directly from file system and giving ok to the error 
messages this was rectified.
  Jose Kanhangad.
   
  Vimal Joseph <vimal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
  Dear All,

If you got an error message "CDROM cannot be mounted" in Synaptic
Package Manager and the CD is opening automatically when inserting it
(ie you can copy files from the CD, but cannot use it with synaptic)
try the following steps.

1) Find the CDROM device name with the command eject -n
2) open a root terminal
3) execute the command: gedit /etc/fstab
4) in the /etc/fstab find the line for cdrom
5) check the device name of the CDROM is what you get with the command eject -n
6) If it is not, please change the device to what you get with eject -n

Example:

the output of eject -n : eject: device is `/dev/hda'
so my cdrom device is /dev/hda
My /etc/fstab:
/dev/sda1 / ext3 defaults
0 0
/dev/hdb /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0

find the line with cdrom in it. In my case it is the second line.
The device name here is /dev/hdb. Which is different from what i got
with the eject -n command
so I Have to change the /etc/fstab entry for CDROM as
/dev/hda /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0
0 and save the file.

reboot the system.

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