/dev/cdrom is not an accual device, it's just a symbolic link to the real device. If you have an IDE cdrom, the correct decive is /dev/hda, /dev/hdb, /dev/hdc, or /dev/hdd for the primary master, primary slave, seccondary master, sec. slave...you get the idea :) If it's scsi, link to /dev/sd?.
Here's the command (as root) # cd /dev # ln -s [hdb, hdc, or whatever] cdrom If you don't know which of those things to use, look at the messages when your computer boots or run "dmsg | less" or "dmesg | less", i don't remember which, and the answer is in there, something like this: hdb: CDROM blah blah On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 05:05:31PM -0400, Russell Hires wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I've got a strange problem. I don't have a /dev/cdrom device. As in, I type > "ls -a /dev/cdrom" and the error message is: No such file or directory. Why > would that be? What can I do to fix it? > > Thanks! > > Russell > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
