Mike wrote:
> Hmmmmmmmmmmmm, that is a humungeous amount to read and understand :-(
> Let us assume for a minute that I am a total idiot.....
> Its easy really, my wife does it all the time :-(
>
> How would one such as me go about adding my 2nd EIDE CD type device and then
> setting it up as a burner?
>
> In newbie terms please as the few grey cells that god gave me have been
> seriously depleted due to rock and roll and too many nights with "the boys"...
>
> 10x in advance:
>
> Mike Perry...
I don't think that creating a device is a newbie thing, except that's
when you usually NEED to make things. Be careful and I don't guarantee
this won't hurt your system.
I don't know what the numbers are for your cd rom burners. I think
you'll have to find that out before you use the command. There are
different kinds of cdrom device types, but I don't know if they have
different major numbers or not. Log in as root.
mknod cdrom2 b xx nn
Where xx is the major number (i.e. 22) and nn is minor number (i.e. 0-9
if you have 10 devices of this type). I know there IS somewhere that
tells you what the major numbers are for devices, but I can't remember
where that is. If anyone finds it, please post so I can write it down.
Don't know if it's on the Mandrake CDs or on the web somewhere.
To see examples of device types, cd to /dev and enter:
ls -alk cd*
Or hd* etc. There are 2 numbers you are concerned with, they are the
two numbers before the date. For example 22, 0 for my IDE cdrom drive.
Once you make your device, you can create a dir (for example: mkdir
/mnt/cdrom2) to mount it on. Personally, I would not put an entry in
/etc/fstab until your have rebooted and mounted it manually and used the
device several times. As far as I can see, if you create a wrong device
that doesn't mess up something else, you can just use "rm" to remove it.
