OK I'm new to linux, got slack 8.0 installed. went good, I got sound to work, with some late nights, if I put a cd in and boot linux I can play the mp3 on the cd.
But I can not open the cdrom to change disks, Do I have to unmout it first?
if I do how do I remount another cd?
Thanks,
Frank

Well, i'm not too familier with Slackware (something I should look at soon), however, if your mount point for your cdrom is /mnt/cdrom , then then following commands should help:



...now your cdrom should be able to open, and note, your cdrom will not open for you if you still have it mounted. And, it will not unmount unless there is nothing using it which includes being in the /mnt/cdrom directory.

Replace the cd, and remount it using



If your mount points are different (for example, debian uses /cdrom rather then /mnt/cdrom) then just replace it above.

ok. I tried that, and got "umount /mnt/cdrom is not in the fstab - and you are not root"
I can see why you need root to mount-umount but is there any way to do it as a user? BTW I'm tring to do this in KDE. I should be able to change cd's as needed, I think?
Frank

try typing 'eject'

OK. I found out I had to edit my fstab file to include the cdrom,
and allow users.
While in there I added two floppys types as well.
This linux stuff is like a good book... I just can't put it down. hehehe
I can tell I'm going to spend some late nights with it!
Frank

can I use this?