On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 22:53:19 +0000
Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Monday 07 Jan 2013 07:35:32 Dale wrote:
> 
> BTW, pressing the touch sensitive button on the laptop to eject the
> CD won't work, neither will typing eject in a terminal:
> 
> $ eject
> eject: tried to use `/mnt/cdrom' as device name but it is no block
> device eject: unable to find or open device for: `cdrom'
> 
> So, eject is still looking for cdrom ...
> 
> Either all commands and legacy apps should update themselves, or I
> better follow Mark's suggestion?

Mick,

You can tell "eject" which device to eject by adding the device-name to
the command, eg:
# eject /dev/sr0

This also works with USB-drives/sticks :)

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Joost

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