Re: How to make cdrom drive work???

[John Corey <whoop@mtco.com>]

cloudmaster wrote:
> 
> John Corey wrote:
> > Alan Wilson wrote:
> ...
> > > when I attempt to mount the cdrom with
> > >         mount -t iso9660 /dev/sr0 /mnt/cdrom
> > > I receive the message
> > >         mount: special device /dev/sr0 does not exist
> > >
> > > Sure enough, there is no sr0 in /dev.
> ...
> > mknod /dev/sr0 b 11 0
> >
> > And 1, 2, etc for multiple cdroms.
> 
> Just in case you need another device in the future, you could've gotten
> that from the man page for mknod, combined with a "ls -l /dev/sr0" on
> another linux box - if you had one around...  It probably says somewhere in
> the prolific kernel docs (or source, if you don't like reading natural
> language) what major and minor numbers most devices expect too.
> 
> --Danny

Documentation/devices.txt in the kernel source has that info.  It's
always handy to keep kernel source around.

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