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. Correct, but it seems you have deleted all the directories under media. That did not work. Were you doing it as a user or root? Here is what I have tried.
linux:/home/james # cd /media linux:/media # ls /bin/ls: .: No medium found not good, meaning all the directories under media have been deleted. Looking at mine, I would say you may need cdrom, cdrecorder, and maybe floppy and xmms_audio_cd. linux:/media # cd . linux:/media # cd .. linux:/ # mkdir /media/cdrom Are you root here. Your prompt suggests you are. mkdir: cannot create directory `/media/cdrom': No medium found Instead, as root, cd /media mkdir cdrom /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom subfs fs=cdfss,unhide,rw,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0 So you definitely need cdrom under /media /dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0 and floppy /dev/ /media/ subfs fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0 comment out this line, it is wrong, and may make udev delete your
James Wright wrote: directories. Assuming you added this, delete it and use Yast to add your external cdwriter. -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Registered Linux user 231871