On Sunday 17 October 2004 05:14, Aron Smith wrote:
> I keep getting the message
> Couldn't open DVD device  /dev/dvd
> so obovously I am doing something wrong
> a bit of enlightenment please

If your machine is like mine and you have a single cdrom/dvd drive, then 
Mandrake may have only created the /dev/cdrom link rather than the /dev/dvd 
link.  You can fix this by creating a symbolic link in /dev from /dev/cdrom 
to /dev/dvd

as root

ln -s /dev/cdrom /dev/dvd

-- 
Bryan Phinney


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