On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 19:18, Glen Wagley wrote: > So after playing around with Knoppix far too long, I decided to install Debian > on this box o' mine. I used my usual method (10 MB netinstall image) and > everything went near perfect. I try 'eject /cdrom' and get unable to open > /dev/cdrom. So I run strace eject /dev/cdrom. The error "Too many levels of > symbolic links" gets printed out among other things. ls -la /dev/cdrom show: > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Nov 18 19:47 /dev/cdrom -> > /dev/cdrom > I don't know how this happened. Should I just delete the symlink? What's the > safest thing to do here?
/dev/cdrom is always just a symlink, usually to something like /dev/hdd or /dev/scd0 and the like. Type 'mount' at the prompt to see what's really mounted where and 'umount' what you find. You can then point /dev/cdrom to the real device. I could be wrong, but if you install discover it might set up that symlink for you. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
