Carlos: Thanks very much for your help. Carlos: I have done some more looking and have found that I can not play cd's with the DVD, and cannot get to the cdrw. In Grub on the kernnel line I have only hdd=ide-scsi listed. My dvd, and cdrw are both ide drives. In the hardware info area of yast2, the DVD is listed as /dev/sr0, and the CDRW is listed as /dev/sr1 this in the CDROM section. The above is repeated in the SCSI
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 02 January 2003 17:27, Ralph De Witt wrote: section. My Desktop DVD icon is pointed to /dev/cdreacorder, and the Desktop CD-R icon is pointed to /dev/cdrom. In my /dev directory I see links for cdrom, cdrom1, cdrecorder, and dvd devices, but lack the skill to find out what they point to. In the media directory I have cdrom, cdrom1,cdrecorder, and dvd subdirectories. Can you help me sort this all out. Hopefully if we can get the links to the right devices and any extra removed then it will all work. Looks like the install went worst then the multiple repeats of the devices we fixed. This is possible the cause of the other errors I was seeing. - -- Yours, Ralph. It said Use Windows XP or better, so I installed SuSE-Linux 8.1 Register Linux User 168814 ICQ #49993234 AIM ralphdewitt jabber.org ralphdewitt GPG Public Key available at http://www.keyserver.net Key id = 3097 3BC4 Kernel version 2.4.19-4GB Current Linux uptime: 36 days 2 hours minutes. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+FWpsmmsm1DCXO8QRAltgAJ9UZySVDEBS3D9tjfWsXM66jUAd6ACfVFv+ I/1JfhJGknXMfRe2NEpFXgM= =knQY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----