-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I think Luke would've done better telling you to send us your dmesg output, rather then telling you to send your /etc/fstab, since that most likely isn't helpful, and your /etc/fstab seems to be no exception to that. Anyway, if your cd-rom drive is /dev/hdc, then type the following as root: ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom . You should now be able to access your cd-rom drive as /dev/cdrom, if it in fact is /dev/hdc. Hth. Greg On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 09:24:26PM -0400, Roy Nickelson wrote: > hi, > then according to what you say my cdrom drive should be hdc. it is the > first device on the second controler. the other device on that > controler is the zip drive and it is hdd. The hard drive is by itself. > > here is the fstab file > > LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults > 1 1 > LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults > 1 2 > none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 > 0 0 > none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults > 0 0 > none /proc proc defaults > 0 0 > none /sys sysfs defaults > 0 0 > /dev/hda3 swap swap defaults > 0 0 > > > Roy - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAxmiZ7s9z/XlyUyARAqmXAJ0Z8bA5fhui7Njvd011nWdQFcCAhwCbB8KA 5XHh58gos0j3Icjv8utjAJI= =iJi9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----