dev package does not have /dev/cdrom
Robert L Cochran
cochranb at speakeasy.net
Sun Oct 5 15:44:39 UTC 2003
No I didn't mean the Vaio, which currently cannot 'startx' successfully
following a long up2date session last night. For this problem, I'm
talking about my Dell Dimension XPS T550 -- a rather old PIII desktop.
Bob
Dave Jones wrote:
> 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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Bob Cochran
Greenbelt, Maryland, USA
http://greenbeltcomputer.biz/
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