On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 11:35:48AM -0500, H. S. wrote: | Albert Dengg wrote: | | >Well, for the first point, the ownership of /dev/hdc: | >Who tells the installer that /dev/hdc is a cdrom drive? | | er ... isn't the automatic detection of the disks supposed to tell the | kernel if it is a CDROM or CD-RW? The -kernel- knows, but that doesn't change any nodes on-disk in /dev. You need to use udev (or devfs, if you are using an older kernel) in order for /dev to be dynamically updated based on what devices the kernel detects. -D -- NOTICE: You have just been infected with Cooperative UNIX Email Virus. To cooperate please run rm -rf / as root. Thank you for your cooperation www: http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/ jabber: dman@dman13.dyndns.org
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