Unable to mount cdrom

[humour]

Hi
I m using fedora core 6 installed.I have tried mount commands bt it doesnt work.
/dev/ doesnt have an entry for cdrom or dvdrom
/dev/ looks like:
[root@localhost ~]# ls /dev/
adsp lp0 ram3 stdin tty30 tty56 usbdev6.1_ep81
agpgart MAKEDEV ram4 stdout tty31 tty57 usbdev7.1_ep00
audio mapper ram5 systty tty32 tty58 usbdev7.1_ep81
bus md0 ram6 tty tty33 tty59 vcs
console mem ram7 tty0 tty34 tty6 vcs1
core mixer ram8 tty1 tty35 tty60 vcs2
disk net ram9 tty10 tty36 tty61 vcs3
dri null ramdisk tty11 tty37 tty62 vcs4
dsp nvram random tty12 tty38 tty63 vcs5
fd par0 root tty13 tty39 tty7 vcs6
full parport0 rtc tty14 tty4 tty8 vcs7
fuse parport1 sda tty15 tty40 tty9 vcs8
gpmctl parport2 sda1 tty16 tty41 ttyS0 vcsa
hpet parport3 sda10 tty17 tty42 ttyS1 vcsa1
hw_random port sda11 tty18 tty43 ttyS2 vcsa2
hwrng ppp sda2 tty19 tty44 ttyS3 vcsa3
initctl ptmx sda5 tty2 tty45 urandom vcsa4
input pts sda6 tty20 tty46 usbdev1.1_ep00 vcsa5
kmsg ram sda7 tty21 tty47 usbdev1.1_ep81 vcsa6
log ram0 sda8 tty22 tty48 usbdev2.1_ep00 vcsa7
loop0 ram1 sda9 tty23 tty49 usbdev2.1_ep81 vcsa8
loop1 ram10 sequencer tty24 tty5 usbdev3.1_ep00 X0R
loop2 ram11 sequencer2 tty25 tty50 usbdev3.1_ep81 zero
loop3 ram12 sg0 tty26 tty51 usbdev4.1_ep00
loop4 ram13 shm tty27 tty52 usbdev4.1_ep81
loop5 ram14 snapshot tty28 tty53 usbdev5.1_ep00
loop6 ram15 snd tty29 tty54 usbdev5.1_ep81
loop7 ram2 stderr tty3 tty55 usbdev6.1_ep00

this is what sfdidk look:
[root@localhost ~]# sfdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 36481 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0

Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 0+ 1957 1958- 15727603+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda2 1958 36479 34522 277297965 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,0,1)
/dev/sda3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/sda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/sda5 1958+ 4568 2611- 20972826 7 HPFS/NTFS
start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,1,1)
/dev/sda6 7180+ 18928 11749- 94373811 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda7 18929+ 22844 3916- 31455238+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda8 22845+ 29661 6817- 54757521 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda9 29662+ 36479 6818- 54765553+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda10 4569+ 6863 2295- 18434556 83 Linux
/dev/sda11 6864+ 7117 254- 2040223+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Also /etc/fstab is :
LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
LABEL=SWAP-sda11 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda8 /media/dump1 ntfs-3g rw,defaults,umask=0000 0 0
/dev/sda9 /media/dump2 ntfs-3g rw,defaults,umask=0000 0 0

and /etc/mtab is:
/dev/sda10 / ext3 rw 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw 0 0
sunrpc /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs rpc_pipefs rw 0 0

How can i mount the cdrom and dvd rom???

[tomkersey]

hey friends,
same on fc7, what does one do to mount a cd or dvd?
where is it documented.
this is rediculous.

[ryptyde]

I have run several installs of FC6 and F7 and now F8T2 and have always inserted the CD/DVD in the drive and it has automounted.

I have just inserted a mini-DVD-RW that has the Fedora-7.91-developer-i386 iso burned to it that I used to install F8T2 on this computer and it automounted.

I know it doesn't help your problem as you have probably inadvertently set a permission so as not to allow it. Here's my "mtab" on F8T2 with the DVD-RW mounted.
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 / ext3 rw 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
/dev/sda1 /boot ext3 rw 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw 0 0
none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc binfmt_misc rw 0 0
sunrpc /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs rpc_pipefs rw 0 0
/dev/sr0 /media/Fedora-7.91-developer-i386 iso9660 ro,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,uid=500 0 0

You may notice that the DVD drive is listed as "sr0" if that helps but may be listed differently in FC6 though.

[tomkersey]

hola humour!
the good news is i was able to mount cd as follows:
mount /dev/scd0 /media/cdrom
it would have been nice if i had known the proper device name earlier.
oh well, learning experience.
try that, might work for you, too