Re: Setting Up Ogle - No /dev/dvd - THANKS

["Thomas H. George" <tom@spininternet.com>]

On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 08:36:31PM +0100, Rus Foster wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, Thomas H. George wrote:
> 
> > I used apt-get to install ogle and hoped the default oglerc would work
> > without editing.  The call to ogle aborted with a message that it could
> > not find /dev/dvd.  There is no entry for dvd in /dev and MAKEDEV
> > doesn't know how to make one.  The dvd-rom drive is the master on ide2
> > and a cd-rw drive is the slave on ide2 so ls /proc/ide shows hda hdb hdc
> > hdd.  I can play an audio cd in the dvd-rom drive and mount a data cd.
> 
> Hi,
> You can just do ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/dvd
> 
> Rgds
> 
> Rus

Thanks.  Lovely simple solution.

Rgds

Tom
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