[Martin Batermann] > Before I emulated scsi, I referred to it as /cdrom and it worked > fine. However, when I changed to the scsi emulation I couldn't get > /usr/sbin/base-config to work. Every time I try to install a > package, it wants me to insert my debian cd in /cdrom which it > couldn't find. Same thing happened with ripperx. Whenever I start > ripperx it complains that it cannot find the cd-drive.
There are two possibilities, and I'm too lazy to check base-config to see which one applies. The first is that your applications are looking for a device file /dev/cdrom, which should be a symbolic link to scd0 or scd1 (depending on which drive you want to use). Quite a few apps look for this for their default CD-ROM drive, so even if base-config doesn't, it's a good idea to arrange it: ln -fs scd1 /dev/cdrom The second possibility is that base-config is looking for something listed in /etc/fstab that mounts on /cdrom . In that case your various symlinks won't help; what you'll need to do is 'mkdir -p /cdrom' and add an entry to /etc/fstab reflecting it, such as: /dev/scd0 /cdrom auto ro,user,noauto 0 0 where once again you can use /dev/scd1 if you prefer that to be your default drive. It is OK to have multiple entries in /etc/fstab referring to the same device, so long as they are not set to mount automatically (the "noauto" above ensures this). > Because I had symlinks all over the place, I tried to tidy it up a > bit and ended up deleting /dev/scd1. Not knowing how to get > /dev/scd1 back, I renamed /dev/scd16 to /dev/scd1. Now I cannot > mount my dvd-writer. Right - to recreate /dev/scd1, do this: cd /dev; MAKEDEV scd Peter
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