In X Windows, with any desktop (KDE, GNOME, AnotherLevel, etc), you can mount CD-ROMs and diskettes by simply typing usermount in a shell window. In a shell prompt (or shell window) you can mount a floppy diskette in /mnt/floppy to read DOS formatted diskettes or Linux formatted diskettes, respectively, as follows: If /etc/fstab has been modified as explained below under 'Using the mount tool', then you can just type: In a shell prompt (or shell window) you can mount a CD-ROM in /mnt/cdrom as follows: You can get help about mount by typing man mount in a shell prompt This is not to say that we need to use these specific mount points.

The usual mount point for diskettes is /mnt/floppy, while the usual mount point for CD-ROMs is /mnt/cdrom. What mount does is to associate the devices (floppy or CD-ROM drives) to a mount point (a directory) in the root file system. In Linux, like in UNIX, diskettes and CD-ROMs need to be mounted before they can be used. Mounting floppy and CD-ROM Mounting floppy and CD-ROM

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