I am still learning the ins and outs of linux, and in the process of trying to get an external USB CD burner to work, I have somehow disabled my CD-ROM. When I click the icon in 'My Computer' (KDE 3.3, SuSE Linux 9.2 Pro) it gives the following message: An error occurred while loading drives:/cdrom.desktop: The file or folder /media/cdrom does not exist. It seemed obvious that I needed to create the directory /media/cdrom. That did not work. Here is what I have tried. As you will see I can use it by mounting to /mnt, but I would like my link in KDE to work correctly. (I had the SuSE 9.2 Disc 5 in the drive the entire time) linux:/home/james # cd /media linux:/media # ls /bin/ls: .: No medium found linux:/media # cd . linux:/media # cd .. linux:/ # mkdir /media/cdrom mkdir: cannot create directory `/media/cdrom': No medium found linux:/ # mound /dev/cdrom /mnt bash: mound: command not found linux:/ # mount /dev/cdrom /mnt mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only linux:/ # mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom mount: mount point /mnt/cdrom does not exist linux:/ # mkdir /mnt/cdrom mkdir: cannot create directory `/mnt/cdrom': Read-only file system linux:/ # mkdir /mnt/cd mkdir: cannot create directory `/mnt/cd': Read-only file system linux:/ # cd /mnt linux:/mnt # ls . autorun.inf COPYING INDEX.gz media.5 SuSEgo.ico .. content COPYRIGHT ls-lR.gz suse linux:/mnt # And I also assume the fstab file is of interest: /dev/hda7 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1 /dev/hda1 /windows/C ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0 /dev/hda5 /windows/D ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0 /dev/hda6 swap swap pri=42 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom subfs fs=cdfss,unhide,rw,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0 /dev/ /media/ subfs fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0 Thank you. - James