Re: Mounting my cdrom

[Randy Edwards <redwards@golgotha.net>]

>    mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist
> What is wrong here?

   The device /dev/cdrom is typically just a symbolic link to whatever "real"
device your CD-ROM is on. You can straighten this out easily.

   First, double-check to see if /dev/cdrom exists ('ls -l /dev/cdrom').  If
it doesn't exist, just add it in.  For example, let's say your CD-ROM is
/dev/hdc (first device on the secondary IDE controller).  Just become root, go
into /dev, and execute a 'ln -s /dev/hdc cdrom' and you'll have a new cdrom
device.

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