this is probably a bit rich comming from me when i posted a load of questions the other day
however, cdrom was one of the things i actually managed to get working on me own, with the help of several books and howtos
assuming you are goin to want to use ur cd drive regulary, its a lot easier to mount the drive if you add them to ur fstab file (/etc/fstab). i believe the line you need is:
/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
so ur device /dev/cdrom, (which is a link to /dev/hdc, ur actual cd drive, the link is purely for ease of use i believe) is mounted to /cdrom, which, obviously, is the folder 'cdrom' in ur root directory. all cd roms have an iso9660 filesystem, 'user' allows all users of ur system to mount the drive, 'noauto' means the cd drive will not be automatically mounted at boot, as it wont always be the same cd in ur drive every time you boot, and i cant find the bit that explains the two '0's
, however i know they need to be set as 0 in each case
hope this helps, even if my grammar is a little dodgy