On Wednesday 29 Dec 2004 00:59, Rick Stevens wrote: > 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 > Mea culpa I was tired, and that syntax always throws me. TD
