On Thu, 27 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2000 at 12:38:33AM -0400, Sarang Lakare wrote:
> > anyway, now my problem is that autofs dosn't work.. nor does normal mount
> > work! when i say "mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom", it says kernel
> > cannot recognize /dev/cdrom as a valid character device.. any help?
>
> /dev/cdrom is always a link. Do you have SCSI or IDE? If you have SCSI, it
> should be a link to /dev/scd0, /dev/scd0 being a _b_lock special device with
> major 11 and minor 0.
>
Not on my system. I've looked. Under (Sorry) RedHat 6.2, I'm using a
SCSI CDRW, from which I installed linux. Looking in /dev using ls -al
there is NO link to /dev/scd0 or anything like that. Plus my cd
mounts as /dev/cdrom from /etc/fstab.
John
