hello Nelson, It seems it's slightly more complicated than that, as my cdrom is /dev/hdc. That's where it has been on all my installs, (be they of linux or osx), and this is confirmed by the kernel messages(hdc: MATSHITA CR-174, ATAPI CDROM drive). But I do not have the /dev/hdc either. How come? Creating a link is not a problem, but here I have to create the whole device it would seem, and I have no idea as to how to do that. thanks Cyril