Why am I unable to start my Student Version of MATLAB with the Documentation CD in my CD/DVD Drive on Linux on MATLAB R14SP1 and earlier versions?

After a successful installation, MATLAB fails to launch as it is unable to locate the Documentation in the CD-ROM drive. Upon startup, the user receives the following error:

"Please insert Student Version Matlab disk into CDROM and restart

MATLAB."

Answer 1

[MathWorks Support Team]

On some Linux systems, mounting the CD is done in a way that doesn’t allow the system to access the safedisc section of the CD-ROM, therefore MATLAB doesn’t start.

1. If your system requires that you have root priviledges to mount a CD-ROM drive, this command should work on most systems:

mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /cdrom

2. To enable nonroot users to mount a CD-ROM drive, include the exec option in your /etc/fstab file as in the following example:

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

3. Some users have been able to get the documentation CD to be read successfully by adding the unhide option to their /etc/fstab as in the following example:

/dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 noauto,unhide,ro,user,exec 0 0