Cyril Niklaus wrote: > hi all, > I just installed debian, with no problems. I realize though now that I > do not have the possibility to mount cdroms. I get the following error > message: > lempo:/home/cyril# mount /dev/cdrom > mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist > /dev/cdrom is in fstab, but indeed not in /dev/. > How can I create the entry in /dev ?
/dev/cdrom is just a symlink to whatever /dev your cdrom actually is. Try "dmesg | grep -i cdrom" and see what it says (for instance, on my powerbook it says: "hde: MATASHIDVD-ROM..."etc). You can then make the cdrom link yourself by doing "ln -s /dev/hdX /dev/cdrom" where hdX is whatever your cdrom is. HTH --Nelson Abramson