On 5/23/05, jerry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I used fedora, the cdrom device is named as "/dev/cdrom" . However, in > my new gentoo system, it's recognized as /dev/hdd. > > Why is that? Could any one please explain it? > > And how can I change that device name back to /dev/cdrom? > > Thank you. > > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > >
when you said you saw it was /dev/cdrom, it was just a link to /dev/hd*. the * depends on how many IDE drives you have. but I'm not sure if you can just make a link manually. -- http://zeegeek.blogspot.com http://ihome.ust.hk/~cs_snx/blog/ (for mainland) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
