Hi Hopefully a quick question (or at least easily answered)! I've just 'upgraded' from RedHat 5.2 + KDE 1.1 to Mandrake 6.0 - and wow, problems abound - enough to go back to win95 temporarily! 1 On boot I see the message 'hard linked hdd to dev/cdrom' but can never mount the cdrom (or play music CDs!). The system responds with a message like 'kernel does not recognise /dev/cdrom/ as a block device (maybe insmod driver?)' similar messages apply for /dev/hdd and for /dev/dsp (for sound purposes - sndconfig won't function) I ought to add I've tried both 'upgrading' and an clean install and on both occasions I cannot get either the cdrom or sound functioning as it did easily under 5.2. Is this a bug? Hope somebody can help a pressured sociologist! Bob Bob Jiggins Research Unit in South East European Studies University of Bradford West Yorkshire UK Tel: +44(0)7050 615511 Fax: +44(0)7050 644569 PGP 5.0i Encryption - Public Key Available E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]