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I'm attempting to mount my CD drive so that I can use it, and I'm confused on all the necessary steps I need to take to get it working smoothly. When I go to my disk utilities it is popping up on my screen and I can eject the disc by clicking eject on the screen, but it says there is no medium in drive when there is. What method should I take to start? And can someone explain exactly what mounting completely entails, thanks for your help.










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  • You should be able to select optical drives with media in them in Nautilus, in which case they're mounted as soon as you click on the drive symbol. Does that not work on your system?
    – David Foerster
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  • I'm not familiar with nautilus at all I'm quite new to ubuntu Unix based in grneral, do I need to install that package?
    – cmehmen
    Feb 25 '15 at 23:58










  • Nautilus is the the default file manager of Ubuntu. Unless you removed it, you should already have and have used it.
    – David Foerster
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I'm attempting to mount my CD drive so that I can use it, and I'm confused on all the necessary steps I need to take to get it working smoothly. When I go to my disk utilities it is popping up on my screen and I can eject the disc by clicking eject on the screen, but it says there is no medium in drive when there is. What method should I take to start? And can someone explain exactly what mounting completely entails, thanks for your help.










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  • You should be able to select optical drives with media in them in Nautilus, in which case they're mounted as soon as you click on the drive symbol. Does that not work on your system?
    – David Foerster
    Feb 25 '15 at 21:02










  • I'm not familiar with nautilus at all I'm quite new to ubuntu Unix based in grneral, do I need to install that package?
    – cmehmen
    Feb 25 '15 at 23:58










  • Nautilus is the the default file manager of Ubuntu. Unless you removed it, you should already have and have used it.
    – David Foerster
    Feb 26 '15 at 11:35















up vote
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up vote
6
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I'm attempting to mount my CD drive so that I can use it, and I'm confused on all the necessary steps I need to take to get it working smoothly. When I go to my disk utilities it is popping up on my screen and I can eject the disc by clicking eject on the screen, but it says there is no medium in drive when there is. What method should I take to start? And can someone explain exactly what mounting completely entails, thanks for your help.










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I'm attempting to mount my CD drive so that I can use it, and I'm confused on all the necessary steps I need to take to get it working smoothly. When I go to my disk utilities it is popping up on my screen and I can eject the disc by clicking eject on the screen, but it says there is no medium in drive when there is. What method should I take to start? And can someone explain exactly what mounting completely entails, thanks for your help.







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  • You should be able to select optical drives with media in them in Nautilus, in which case they're mounted as soon as you click on the drive symbol. Does that not work on your system?
    – David Foerster
    Feb 25 '15 at 21:02










  • I'm not familiar with nautilus at all I'm quite new to ubuntu Unix based in grneral, do I need to install that package?
    – cmehmen
    Feb 25 '15 at 23:58










  • Nautilus is the the default file manager of Ubuntu. Unless you removed it, you should already have and have used it.
    – David Foerster
    Feb 26 '15 at 11:35




















  • You should be able to select optical drives with media in them in Nautilus, in which case they're mounted as soon as you click on the drive symbol. Does that not work on your system?
    – David Foerster
    Feb 25 '15 at 21:02










  • I'm not familiar with nautilus at all I'm quite new to ubuntu Unix based in grneral, do I need to install that package?
    – cmehmen
    Feb 25 '15 at 23:58










  • Nautilus is the the default file manager of Ubuntu. Unless you removed it, you should already have and have used it.
    – David Foerster
    Feb 26 '15 at 11:35


















You should be able to select optical drives with media in them in Nautilus, in which case they're mounted as soon as you click on the drive symbol. Does that not work on your system?
– David Foerster
Feb 25 '15 at 21:02




You should be able to select optical drives with media in them in Nautilus, in which case they're mounted as soon as you click on the drive symbol. Does that not work on your system?
– David Foerster
Feb 25 '15 at 21:02












I'm not familiar with nautilus at all I'm quite new to ubuntu Unix based in grneral, do I need to install that package?
– cmehmen
Feb 25 '15 at 23:58




I'm not familiar with nautilus at all I'm quite new to ubuntu Unix based in grneral, do I need to install that package?
– cmehmen
Feb 25 '15 at 23:58












Nautilus is the the default file manager of Ubuntu. Unless you removed it, you should already have and have used it.
– David Foerster
Feb 26 '15 at 11:35






Nautilus is the the default file manager of Ubuntu. Unless you removed it, you should already have and have used it.
– David Foerster
Feb 26 '15 at 11:35












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By default the system automatically mounts the cd. Since you system recognizes the cd drive, It is most likely a:




  • defective disk.

  • defective cd drive

  • cd drive that is not capable of reading a high capacity (DVD) disk.






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    Usually, if a CD or DVD is inserted, you can see them under /dev/cdrom. You wont be able to view the contents from that location directly such as by doing cd /dev/cdrom or ls .



    You can mount this CD by creating a mount point or using the existing mount point such as /media



    run the following command



     sudo mount /dev/cdrom /media
    #you can use your custom mount point as well if this is on your desktop or somewhere else


    For more information on the mount command, You can read the manual pages by doing man mount



    That's it. You should be able to see the files under /media folder now.



    Good Luck!






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      Add your original ubuntu_server.iso file in your VM CD drive from manual setting option and then check how many media available with you



      #sudo ls /media/
      cdrom floppy1 floppy2


      Then is not there then create a directory



      #cd /media
      #sudo mkdir cdrom
      #ls
      cdrom floppy1 floppy2
      @[this CDROM have been created with this command


      after then mount this cdrom in your DEV directory



      #cd
      [then go to home/main directory for mount]


      run bellow commant and boom! mount your CDROM on ubuntu_server



      #sudo mount /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom
      [this will mount your CDROM on ubuntu server successfully]


      Thanks!!!






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        By default the system automatically mounts the cd. Since you system recognizes the cd drive, It is most likely a:




        • defective disk.

        • defective cd drive

        • cd drive that is not capable of reading a high capacity (DVD) disk.






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          By default the system automatically mounts the cd. Since you system recognizes the cd drive, It is most likely a:




          • defective disk.

          • defective cd drive

          • cd drive that is not capable of reading a high capacity (DVD) disk.






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            By default the system automatically mounts the cd. Since you system recognizes the cd drive, It is most likely a:




            • defective disk.

            • defective cd drive

            • cd drive that is not capable of reading a high capacity (DVD) disk.






            share|improve this answer












            By default the system automatically mounts the cd. Since you system recognizes the cd drive, It is most likely a:




            • defective disk.

            • defective cd drive

            • cd drive that is not capable of reading a high capacity (DVD) disk.







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                Usually, if a CD or DVD is inserted, you can see them under /dev/cdrom. You wont be able to view the contents from that location directly such as by doing cd /dev/cdrom or ls .



                You can mount this CD by creating a mount point or using the existing mount point such as /media



                run the following command



                 sudo mount /dev/cdrom /media
                #you can use your custom mount point as well if this is on your desktop or somewhere else


                For more information on the mount command, You can read the manual pages by doing man mount



                That's it. You should be able to see the files under /media folder now.



                Good Luck!






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                  Usually, if a CD or DVD is inserted, you can see them under /dev/cdrom. You wont be able to view the contents from that location directly such as by doing cd /dev/cdrom or ls .



                  You can mount this CD by creating a mount point or using the existing mount point such as /media



                  run the following command



                   sudo mount /dev/cdrom /media
                  #you can use your custom mount point as well if this is on your desktop or somewhere else


                  For more information on the mount command, You can read the manual pages by doing man mount



                  That's it. You should be able to see the files under /media folder now.



                  Good Luck!






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                    up vote
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                    Usually, if a CD or DVD is inserted, you can see them under /dev/cdrom. You wont be able to view the contents from that location directly such as by doing cd /dev/cdrom or ls .



                    You can mount this CD by creating a mount point or using the existing mount point such as /media



                    run the following command



                     sudo mount /dev/cdrom /media
                    #you can use your custom mount point as well if this is on your desktop or somewhere else


                    For more information on the mount command, You can read the manual pages by doing man mount



                    That's it. You should be able to see the files under /media folder now.



                    Good Luck!






                    share|improve this answer












                    Usually, if a CD or DVD is inserted, you can see them under /dev/cdrom. You wont be able to view the contents from that location directly such as by doing cd /dev/cdrom or ls .



                    You can mount this CD by creating a mount point or using the existing mount point such as /media



                    run the following command



                     sudo mount /dev/cdrom /media
                    #you can use your custom mount point as well if this is on your desktop or somewhere else


                    For more information on the mount command, You can read the manual pages by doing man mount



                    That's it. You should be able to see the files under /media folder now.



                    Good Luck!







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                        Add your original ubuntu_server.iso file in your VM CD drive from manual setting option and then check how many media available with you



                        #sudo ls /media/
                        cdrom floppy1 floppy2


                        Then is not there then create a directory



                        #cd /media
                        #sudo mkdir cdrom
                        #ls
                        cdrom floppy1 floppy2
                        @[this CDROM have been created with this command


                        after then mount this cdrom in your DEV directory



                        #cd
                        [then go to home/main directory for mount]


                        run bellow commant and boom! mount your CDROM on ubuntu_server



                        #sudo mount /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom
                        [this will mount your CDROM on ubuntu server successfully]


                        Thanks!!!






                        share|improve this answer

























                          up vote
                          0
                          down vote













                          Add your original ubuntu_server.iso file in your VM CD drive from manual setting option and then check how many media available with you



                          #sudo ls /media/
                          cdrom floppy1 floppy2


                          Then is not there then create a directory



                          #cd /media
                          #sudo mkdir cdrom
                          #ls
                          cdrom floppy1 floppy2
                          @[this CDROM have been created with this command


                          after then mount this cdrom in your DEV directory



                          #cd
                          [then go to home/main directory for mount]


                          run bellow commant and boom! mount your CDROM on ubuntu_server



                          #sudo mount /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom
                          [this will mount your CDROM on ubuntu server successfully]


                          Thanks!!!






                          share|improve this answer























                            up vote
                            0
                            down vote










                            up vote
                            0
                            down vote









                            Add your original ubuntu_server.iso file in your VM CD drive from manual setting option and then check how many media available with you



                            #sudo ls /media/
                            cdrom floppy1 floppy2


                            Then is not there then create a directory



                            #cd /media
                            #sudo mkdir cdrom
                            #ls
                            cdrom floppy1 floppy2
                            @[this CDROM have been created with this command


                            after then mount this cdrom in your DEV directory



                            #cd
                            [then go to home/main directory for mount]


                            run bellow commant and boom! mount your CDROM on ubuntu_server



                            #sudo mount /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom
                            [this will mount your CDROM on ubuntu server successfully]


                            Thanks!!!






                            share|improve this answer












                            Add your original ubuntu_server.iso file in your VM CD drive from manual setting option and then check how many media available with you



                            #sudo ls /media/
                            cdrom floppy1 floppy2


                            Then is not there then create a directory



                            #cd /media
                            #sudo mkdir cdrom
                            #ls
                            cdrom floppy1 floppy2
                            @[this CDROM have been created with this command


                            after then mount this cdrom in your DEV directory



                            #cd
                            [then go to home/main directory for mount]


                            run bellow commant and boom! mount your CDROM on ubuntu_server



                            #sudo mount /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom
                            [this will mount your CDROM on ubuntu server successfully]


                            Thanks!!!







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