Hello all The problem described at the bottom of the page and posted to this mail list about a week ago, was solved in the following way.
The command: #dmesg | grep CD reported that the CD was at /dev/hdb I did try: #ls -l /dev/cdrom and recieved a message saying there was no such device. Then from su (or root) the command: #ln -s /dev/hdb /dev/cdrom enabled the CD to work fine! Many thanks to those who contributed to solving my problem. Regards Barry ----- Original Message ----- 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]