do you know which ide device your cd drive is? i'd imagine that you're just missing a symlink. normally, /dev/cdrom is a link to /dev/hd[bcd], depending on where it's plugged in on your ide chain. if you don't know what i'm talking about, you can figure it out really easy by doing the following command: $ dmesg | grep CD you should see something along the following lines: oil[~]11:46:13$ dmesg | grep CD hdc: SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-148C, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdc: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 so my cd drive is on hdc. to make the symlink: # ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom and then everything should work. hth sean of course if you're using scsi instead you'll have to modify a letter or two. On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 11:34:57PM +0800, Barry Cugley wrote: > Hello all > > Debian cannot find the CD drive (though Windows 98 can) so I have used the vi editor to change the file system table. Unfortunately, the CD is still not being found by Debian. > > I have changed the line in /etc/fstab > /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,noauto 0 0 > to: > /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,noauto,users 0 0 > > > After restarting the computer, putting a cd in its drive and double clicking on the cd icon, I get the message: > "mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist" > > If anyone can see what I might be doing wrong then please let me know. > > Regards > Barry >
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