Re: How to make cdrom drive work???

[Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>]

Alan Wilson said:
> when I attempt to mount the cdrom with
> 	mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom
> I receive the message
>  	mount: special device /dev/sr0 does not exist
> 
> Sure enough, there is no sr0 in /dev.

These days everybody uses /dev/scd0.  The kernel still calls it sr0
though, but that doesn't mean anything.  If it bugs you, just

    cd /dev && ln -s scd0 sr0

Steve
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