On 18/1/2000 Irving Frederick wrote:
I just installed a base potato system using the current disk downloads from the Debian FTP site. All went well until I tried to mount my cdrom drive. I was given an error message to the effect that the cdrom device does not exist. I then went to my /dev directory and discovered that there was no /dev/cdrom . . . .hmmm. I tried to run MAKEDEV but unfortunately was not clever enough to get it to do anything. Can anyone tell me how to fix this problem so that I can access my cdrom drive and install X windows and some other good stuff from my slink cdrom (until I can get a potato cdrom). Thanks in advance.
/dev/cdrom is just a symlink to create cd /dev ; ln -s <cddev> cdrom so in reality if your cdrom is on /dev/hdc (master of secondary IDE) do cd /dev ; ln -s hdc cdrom Ethan
