On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 21:36 +0200, Henry F Fourie wrote:
> 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
>
You should have looked at the man page you'll see that:
SYNOPSIS
ln [OPTION]... TARGET [LINK_NAME]
ln [OPTION]... TARGET... DIRECTORY
ln [OPTION]... --target-directory=DIRECTORY TARGET...
so (as I see it) the command should have been:
ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/dvd
HTH
Scott
> 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
>
