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Re: About cdrom



> Is debian supposed to have a /dev/cdrom
> Because when I install debian I do
> mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /cdrom and I get
> /dev/cdrom file or Dir not found
> I thought you can only mount a cdrom drive with /dev/cdrom

Nope. You can mount a cdrom on anywhere (even /bin if you really want),
but /dev/cdrom isn't created by default.

mkdir /dev/cdrom

should do the trick.

HTH,

Matthew

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