do you know which ide device your cd drive is? i'd imagine that you're just missing a symlink. normally, /dev/cdrom is a link to /dev/hd[bcd], depending on where it's plugged in on your ide chain.
if you don't know what i'm talking about, you can figure it out really
easy by doing the following command:
$ dmesg | grep CD
you should see something along the following lines:
oil[~]11:46:13$ dmesg | grep CD
hdc: SAMSUNG CD-ROM SC-148C, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
hdc: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
so my cd drive is on hdc. to make the symlink:
# ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom
and then everything should work.
hth
sean
of course if you're using scsi instead you'll have to modify a letter or two.
On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 11:34:57PM +0800, Barry Cugley wrote:
> Hello all
>
> Debian cannot find the CD drive (though Windows 98 can) so I have used the vi editor
>to change the file system table. Unfortunately, the CD is still not being found by
>Debian.
>
> I have changed the line in /etc/fstab
> /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,noauto 0 0
> to:
> /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,noauto,users 0 0
>
>
> After restarting the computer, putting a cd in its drive and double clicking on the
>cd icon, I get the message:
> "mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist"
>
> If anyone can see what I might be doing wrong then please let me know.
>
> Regards
> Barry
>
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