Thanks for your questions Zoki(they made me think, and figure some stuff out on my own!) Newbies need to figure things out, the lesson sticks better that way. (you helped too Maxwell) I still don't have the cdrom working, but I can tell that I'm soooo close.;^} Here's what I have done: I cleaned up everything: removed my /dev/cdrom, my /cdrom, my /dev/sbpcd, and my /dev/hdc so I could start over. Rebooted, created them all again, and made the proper links. Added the /cdrom to /etc/fstab. I don't get the "not a block device" error anymore when I mount it. However, the cdrom driver, sbpcd goes into some sort of scan mode after I give the command "mount /cdrom": sbpcd-0 [1] Scanning: 0x230 Soundblaster sbpcd-0 [2] Scanning: 0x300 Lasermate etc, etc, through 30 or so scans involving Teac and other brands as well. At the end, it announces that it is unable to mount the cdrom. My dmesg indicates that Linux is pegging my cdrom model every time I power up the machine: >hdc: Matshita CR-581 (Panasonic) "drive blah-blah". Do I just need to ln /hdc to /cdrom or /dev/cdrom? Eric Cifreo -- PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, Errata and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES! http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ /RedHat-Errata /RedHat-Tips /mailing-lists To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject.
