Scott Talbot wrote:
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
Right. Or, a synopsis that's in simple English
ln [OPTION] ORIGINAL-NAME NEW-NAME
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
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