dev package does not have /dev/cdrom

[Robert L Cochran]

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
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