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Re: About cdrom



"M.C. Vernon" wrote:
  >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.

Absolutely NOT!

/dev/cdrom should be a symbolic link to a real device, not a directory!

ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom
           ^^^
substituting for hdc as appropriate to your system.


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