“This article gives a short but useful description on how to
use your CD-ROM under Linux. It describes how to find the
CD-ROM device, mount (make available) the CD-ROM, read the
contents, umount it and gives some hints for troubleshooting.”
“You got you[r] Linux-box to work, now you want to copy a file
from a CD-ROM to your hard disk. Check if the CD-ROM device was
identified correctly by the Linux kernel using the command dmesg.
If you have an ATAPI cdrom connected via IDE then this might look
like…”