Basic linux question (cdrom)

how do i mount a cdrom because i alrdy tried this
mount /dev/cdrom/cdom
But that doesnt seem to work
(im using linux slackware 8.0)

And yes i do have a cd-rom drive, and it is detected because i installed linux from that cd-rom and when linux boots he detects the cdrom so thats not the problem.
::edit::
it gave me an error something about
module or whatever not found in /etc/fstab or etc/mtab
when i searched a lil further edited some thing in mtab or whatever it said when i tried to mount the cd-rom: Kernel doesnt support this

But when i installed this linux evrything went fine and i installed it from a cd-rom so linux said... if you made it this far by using the kernel from your bootdisk then u should install this one.. and thats what i did.
The only thing i didnt do during installation was installing lilo on the comp. It gave me an error #1 (dunno what that is but anyway)
Any suggestions are welcome
thx in advance

First of all:

Code:

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mkdir /cdrom

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Now, let's mount the cd-rom:

Code:

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mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /cdrom

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to unmount the cd-rom:

Code:

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umount /cdrom

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But anyway check if you dont have /mnt/cdrom, if yes, just mount him.

im gonna try this out right now <<hope beep of comp starting up doesnt wakes my parents>>

LOL i said before that i had edited the mtab file in /etc/ ...
well this was the first time i rebooted and now i looked in /cdrom and all my thing were in there that were on my cdrom

so next time ill first reboot
thx anyway Vber

Well it worked fine for one day....
before i could mount the cdrom when i try to mount it now it says something like

Quote:

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/dev/cdrom is not a block device

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every cdrom is a block device (although thats what i think)
my
etc/fstab file looks like this well the part concerning the cd-rom

Code:

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/dev/cdrom      /cdrom        iso9660    noauto,ro      0      0

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any suggestions on how to change something so that linux doesnt sees the cdrom as a character device but as a block device??

Code:

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none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdb,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0

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Yeah, and it's 'none' the iocharset and other things you can change to suit your needs.

Mayb i overestimated my capacities by using slackware as my first linux system ever. Because now i have the cd-rom back up and i want to do this
amp *.mp3 then it says unabale to open audio device/broken pipe but ill think i can manage this one in my own (hopefully)

Look, slackware isn't so easy really, but after you and slackware are good friends :), you'll be able to use any linux, and you won't get problems, configuring or no matter what.

Yup can be BUT why do i have to stumble at strange things i mean almost evry soundcard is supported mine a soundblaster ct4170 is as well but i have to make sure that DMA is set to 1. Another i just read about this crad is that it could be possible that i have to change QIC-02 to QIC-117 .....so now ill look up what all those things mean