dev package does not have /dev/cdrom

[Dave Jones]

On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 10:23:11AM -0400, Robert L Cochran wrote:
 > I stand corrected.
 > 
 > To my surprise, entries for /dev/cdrom and /dev/cdrom1 (cdrom1 would 
 > point to my HP CD Writer) were not created in fstab during the initial 
 > installation of Fedora Core. I don't use CDs much these days so I didn't 
 > notice this till recently.
 > 
 > I removed the graphical boot for this machine and noticed boot time 
 > errors this morning for /dev/cdrom. I then  tried mounting a CD. It failed.
 > 
 > So, there is a configuration script somewhere that is not creating the 
 > right symlinks.

Did you say this was a Vaio CD drive? There have been problems detecting
those, (which may now be fixed as of a day or so ago in the newer PCMCIA
packages).  If there were detection problems at install time, I can
understand why it wouldn't make the symlinks.

		Dave

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