Re: DELETED /dev/cdrom Ooops!
On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 10:49:44PM -0700, Dom Leon wrote:
> Could someone please let me know what I can do if I
> deleted /dev/cdrom =((
>
> Im sure I probably have to reinstall it or something,
> but I only have access to the floppy drive. Can I
> still do it? Please let me know where I can find
> documentation to resolve this...
As root, type: dmesg | more
and find out which device is your cdrom drive. It'll probably have a
line like:
hdc: DV-28E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
in it. Then:
cd /dev
ln -s <device> cdrom
so if hdc is your cdrom device then you would do:
cd /dev
ln -s hdc cdrom
And you're sweet.
/dev/cdrom is just a symlink (usually) to the access point on your
filesystem to the driver controlling the device. These can be recreated
easily without having to reinstall anything.
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