mount: unknown filesystem type ‘iso9660′
March 17th, 2010
If you are running Ubuntu jeOS and selected the minimal VMWare installation option you may find that you receive the following error when you attempt to mount a CDROM using the sudo mount /cdrom command from the command line:
mount: unknown filesystem type 'iso9660'
This is because the kernel does not have iso9660 (cdrom filesystem) support built-in. To fix the problem you just need to upgrade your kernel by running the following commands as root from the command line:
aptitude update aptitude upgrade
then restart your machine by running the following command:
shutdown -r now
Once you’ve restarted you should now find that you can mount CDROM’s by using mount /cdrom command.