On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Alan Gutierrez wrote: > * Rahul Sundaram <rahulsundaram@xxxxxxxxx> [2004-11-21 09:08]: > > Hi > > > > > (I'm asking because my CD-ROM for this laptop has gone missing.) > > > > > > Thanks in advance. > > > > this is likely to be a problem with udev. if you havent updated to the > > latest udev release please do so to fix this > > > > up2date -u or yum update will do all the updates. > > I meant literally. > > The CD-ROM is external, detachable on the Sony Z505. One way you can do the install is - swap the HDD into a different machine (if one is available) - do the install/update there - and swap it back. Satish