Re: Setting Up Ogle - No /dev/dvd - THANKS
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 10:36:50AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 08:36:31PM +0100, Rus Foster wrote:
> > On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, Thomas H. George wrote:
> >
> > > I used apt-get to install ogle and hoped the default oglerc would work
> > > without editing. The call to ogle aborted with a message that it could
> > > not find /dev/dvd. There is no entry for dvd in /dev and MAKEDEV
> > > doesn't know how to make one. The dvd-rom drive is the master on ide2
> > > and a cd-rw drive is the slave on ide2 so ls /proc/ide shows hda hdb hdc
> > > hdd. I can play an audio cd in the dvd-rom drive and mount a data cd.
> >
> > Hi,
> > You can just do ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/dvd
> >
> > Rgds
> >
> > Rus
>
> Thanks. Lovely simple solution.
>
> Rgds
>
> Tom
Footnote: I also just added a Sony USB DVD+RW. Debian registered it as
a mass storage device and I found ln -s /dev/sr1 /dev/dvd worked
perfectly. I was able to play a dvd movie.
Tom
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