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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: buzza24 on 18 March 2004, 00:49

Title: missing my DVD rom
Post by: buzza24 on 18 March 2004, 00:49

Hey Peoples,

I installed slackware yesturday and this morning I found that it had not found my dvd drive.

how can i install it?

thanks

Title: missing my DVD rom
Post by: WMD on 18 March 2004, 00:58

Did the installer find it ok?

If so, figure out which kernel you boot the installer with and choose that as the default kernel.  (might require a re-install)

Title: missing my DVD rom
Post by: Meshuggener on 18 March 2004, 03:05

No, you'll have to find which device it is.  I'm assuming this isn't the drive you installed Slack with.  On my system, it's device block hdd because it's the secondary device set to slave - making my first cdrom drive the master and therefore hdc (your hard drive is probably hda).  Once you find out which device it is, make a symbolic link to it by typing this as root:
ln -sf /dev/hdd /dev/dvd (replace hdd with your device block)
And then make the directory to mount it to:
mkdir /mnt/dvd
And then adjust the /etc/fstab file by adding another line like this:
/dev/dvd    /mnt/dvd     iso9660     noauto,owner,ro  0   0
That should do it - just try mounting it with mount /dev/dvd.

Title: missing my DVD rom
Post by: mobrien_12 on 18 March 2004, 08:14

There is a good chance that it identified it as a CDROM drive.

Try this

ls -l /dev/cdrom

If it points to a real drive (such as /dev/hdc) you just make a symbolic link called /dev/dvd to the same drive.