I'm still a bit new to all of this... Tried creating the link, but get "ln: `/dev/hdc': File exists". Form what I can find out, hdc is the DVD drive. I have a BenQ DVD+RW drive. Anything else I can try?!? Excuse the ignorance. Henry On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 19:31, Tony Dietrich wrote: > On Tuesday 28 Dec 2004 13:21, Henry F Fourie wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I did a standard Fedora Core 2 install. All was working good except my > > sound card. Then used up2date to update my system and downloaded the > > 2.6.9-1.6_FC2smp kernal. I installed teh RPM and then rebooted my > > machine. when it came up Kudzu ran and picked up my sound card. After > > logging in as the normal user and as root, the DVD drive is missing. I > > can burn onto disks using K3B, but I cannot find my DVD drive under the > > "Computer" section. > > > > Can anyone shed some light on this for me... > > > > Henry > You need to create a symbolic link under /dev pointing to the dvd drive. > Quite probably its also your CDROM drive if you have a dual-purpose drive. > > Assuming your drive is /dev/hda > # ln -s /dev/dvd /dev/hda > > TD
