dev package does not have /dev/cdrom
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Sun Oct 5 15:08:14 UTC 2003
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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