I cant mount my cdrom the way the Peanut Linux install.txt file says I can

[oreos]

It says it cant locate "that elusive peanut.bz2 file" and I should type:

mount /dev/hdc /DOS

Then after it mounts to type:

stage1

The problem being that I cannot mount the drive, I receive write-protection errors.

Hmmmm.....

[jetblackz]

su
vi /etc/fstab
Edit as follows
/dev/hda1 /mnt/dos vfat noauto,user,exec,ro,nosuid,umask=007 0 0
Comment out your old line with #
#...................
mkdir /mnt/dos