1. I found the /.dev directory, and it had /.dev/hdc
2. I decided to try to link /dev/cdrom to /.dev/hdc, and it worked. I successfully mounted a CD-ROM (the actual task was to view a PPS presentation from the CD-ROM using OpenOffice Impress, and it was impressive experience [sic]).
Later, I unmounted and discovered that somehow /dev/hdc has been created.
I'll wait and see if the newly-found device file /dev/hdc survives future reboots. Meanwhile I am still bothered by having to manually create the /dev/cdrom symbolic link.
Omer Zak wrote:
I have found, the hard way, that there are neither /dev/hdc* nor /dev/cdrom in my ThinkPad R40e laptop Debian/testing/non-US/main installation.
The kernel is 2.6.8 unchanged from the Debian testing package which installed it.
I did find that there is something called udev, which was supposed to automatically create the device files when CD-ROM is recognized.
The CD-ROM device was recognized (there are the appropriate dmesg messages, and there are both /proc/ide/ide0/hda and /proc/ide/ide1/hdc directories, whose "files" inside them have the information corresponding to correctly-identified hard drive and CD-ROM respectively).
I also looked to see if there is any relevant Debian package, which I neglected to install, and found nothing pertinent (I used dselect and looked for packages whose names conform to the pattern *cd*).
What should I check for now? I do not want to manually create /dev/hdc!!!
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