On Sunday 17 October 2004 08:43, Bryan Phinney wrote:
> 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
When I do the above I get a file exists error, and in /dev the file is 
'/dev/dvd@'.
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Regards;
Hoyt
Registered Linux User #363264
http://counter.li.org

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