Sounds like the cdrom is not auto-mounting. Open a console, or menu run command , or alt-f2 and enter the command mount /mnt/cdrom if it's mounted you will get the error message. mount: /dev/hdxx already mounted or /mnt/cdrom busy mount: according to mtab, /dev/hdxx is already mounted on /mnt/cdrom If not you will not get get any return except the prompt. Make sure no browsers/file managers are in the directory /mnt/cdrom when you do this. -- jludwig <wralphie@xxxxxxxxxxx>