>Vidiot wrote:
>> 
>> >> symbolic link files
>> >> ln -s  /dev/hda5  /dev/cdrom
>> >> and
>> >> ln -s  /dev/hdb   /dev/cdrom
>> >> already exist
>> >
>> >Can't be.  There can only be one file /dev/cdrom, and it sounds like
>> >it's pointing to /dev/hdb
>> 
>> Not true.  All the error message is indicating that that the symbolic link
>> file, /dev/cdrom, already exists.  You have to look to see where it is
>> pointing.
>
>You and I must have read his message diffrently.  I read it as he
>believed that both /dev/hda5 and /dev/hdb were symlinked to /dev/cdrom. 
>The text leading up to that section of his message fairly clearly
>indicated that /dev/cdrom was a symlink to /dev/hdb.
>MSG

Yep, you and I read it differently.  The only way to know is to actually
list the link, or remove and rebuild, like I directed.  Then we know for sure
where the link is pointing.

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