Re: cdrom device not there

["E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)" <tgakem@sg10.chem.tue.nl>]

> 
> 
> After reinstalling my system (hamm) from scratch I have no /dev/cdrom 
> Is this obselete ? If yes then what is the name of the new device ?
> I have tried ./MAKEDEV cdrom and got an error 
> Any ideas ?
> George 

/dev/cdrom is not a device, but a symbolic link to the cdrom device.
If you have an ide cdrom, it will usually point to something like
/dev/hdb (slave on primary port), /dev/hdc (master on secondary port)
or /dev/hdd (slave on secondary port).  You probably need to do
something like

cd /dev
ln -s hdb cdrom

as root.

HTH,
Eric


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