Mount CD or DVD Rom in Linux Rumi, June 3, 2018 Finding out your CD/DVD names in Linux Use the following command to find out the name Of DVD / CD-ROM / Writer / Blu-ray device on a Linux based system: # lsblk OR # dmesg | egrep -i --color 'cdrom|dvd|cd/rw|writer' Sample outputs (/dev/sr0): [ 5.437164] sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray [ 5.437307] cdrom: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 Syntax to mount DVD / CDROM in Linux The syntax is: # mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/deviceName /path/to/mount/point Create a mount point, type mkdir command as follows: # mkdir -p /mnt/cdrom Mount /dev/cdrom or /dev/sr0 as follows: # mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom OR # mount -t iso9660 -o ro /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom Verify that CD/DVD mounted at the /cdrom or /mnt/cdrom, enter: mount df /cdrom or /mnt/cdrom represents the mount point of the CD or DVD. To view or browse CD or DVD, enter: ls -l /cdrom cd /cdrom ls To copy a file called foo.txt to the /tmp, enter: cd /cdrom cp -v foo.txt /tmp OR cp -v /cdrom/foo.txt /tmp How do I unmount CD-ROM or DVD on Linux? Type the following command as the root user: # umount /cdrom OR # umount /dev/cdrom OR # umount /mnt/cdrom Related Administrations Configurations (Linux) CDROMDVDROM
Administrations Migrating Windows 2022 from proxmox to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) March 12, 2024 I was doing a requirement work where a customized windows 2022 needs to be ported to OCI. In order to achieve this, following steps were considered- Creating a KVM virtual guest on my Proxmox 7 Infra and install windows 2022 with virtio drivers. Stopping the VM and copying the qcow2… Read More
May 8, 2011May 8, 2011 Installing VirtualBox From Precompiled Binaries First, we install the packages gdeb, gedbi, and gdebi-core. Open the Synaptic Package Manager (System > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager): You can use the search function to find the three packages. Select them for installation and click on Apply. Close Synaptic after the packages… Read More
Icinga Sample Host cfg file to monitor Windows Server December 8, 2011December 8, 2011 define host{ use windows-server ; Inherit default values from a template host_name blk-smsgw ; The name we're giving to this host alias Windows Server ; A longer name associated with the host address 10.10.10.1 ; IP address of the host } definehostgroup{ alias Windows Servers ; Long name… Read More