Are you quite certain? The fact that fstab has it doesn't say anything
about it being a link.
Please paste in the results from
ls -l /dev/cdrom
for us.
John Aldrich wrote:
>
> 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
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