Re: Cannot mount cdrom in new potato install

[Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>]

On 18/1/2000 Irving Frederick wrote:

> I just installed a base potato system using the
> current disk downloads
> from the Debian FTP site. All went well until I
> tried to mount my cdrom
> drive. I was given an error message to the effect
> that the cdrom device
> does not exist. I then went to my /dev directory
> and discovered that
> there was no /dev/cdrom . . . .hmmm. I tried to
> run MAKEDEV but
> unfortunately was not clever enough to get it to
> do anything. Can anyone
> tell me how to fix this problem so that I can access
> my cdrom drive and
> install X windows and some other good stuff from
> my slink cdrom (until I
> can get a potato cdrom). Thanks in advance.

/dev/cdrom is just a symlink

to create

cd /dev ; ln -s <cddev> cdrom

so in reality if your cdrom is on /dev/hdc (master of secondary IDE) do

cd /dev ; ln -s hdc cdrom

Ethan