My DVD-ROM is not showing up in /media or in mount for Ubuntu 10.10

Question

I installed Ubuntu off of a live CD. Now, I cannot get the thing to show up. When I type "mount" I get this:

dcole@Ubuntu:~$ mount
/dev/loop0 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro,commit=0)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
none on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
none on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
/dev/sda1 on /host type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/dcole/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=dcole)

I am new to Linux, but I am pretty sure it is not showing up here?

edit:

also this:

dcole@Ubuntu:/$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    nodev,noexec,nosuid 0       0
/host/Ubuntu/disks/root.disk /               ext4    loop,errors=remount-ro 0       1
/host/Ubuntu/disks/swap.disk none            swap    loop,sw         0      

How come Ubuntu is not recognizing my dvd-rom drive?

Answer 1

ubuntu doesn't mount the Drive unless its necessary (i.e. a DVD or CD was loaded into the drive) .. did you check for that?

Also, if you already have a CD in there .. try this command in the terminal

mount /dev/sr0

or

mount /cdrom

and this should - in most cases - mount your DVD drive ONLY when there is a media loaded in, otherwise the command will just hang and do nothing ..

Those are the preliminary procedures to see if it works, if it doesn't, then it might be alot of other issues, but let's leave them till later, until after you try this one

Answer 2

Looks like the optical drive isn't listed in /etc/fstab

Try doing this:

cd / 
sudo mkdir TESTCD
sudo mount /dev/cdrom /TESTCD

If it works, you need to add your optical drive to fstab.

Try adding this line at the bottom of fstab:

/dev/cdrom  /mnt/cdrom   auto    noauto,user          0 0

/mnt/cdrom is the directory where the disk should be mounted.