On Monday 02 December 2002 04.36, Kevin McLauchlan wrote:
Ahhh... I had stopped looking too soon, when I didn't find "sr0" or "sda" or "so", as suggested in the "mount" error message (above).
I believe "so" is a word, not a device. "or so" == "or similar"
why would SuSE be using a different device-naming convention than is expected by "mount" and other Linux infrastructure?
They don't. If you really don't have /dev/sr0 there's something seriously wrong with your setup. sr0 and scd0 are identical, by the way. The names are completely unimportant, except as a way for programs to find the correct device. The only thing that matters is the major/minor number of the device. ls -l /dev/sr0 /dev/scd0 brw-r----- 1 root disk 11, 0 2002-09-09 22:24 /dev/scd0 brw------- 1 andjoh users 11, 0 2002-09-09 22:24 /dev/sr0 As you can see, they are both major number 11, minor number 0, and that is what decides which piece of hardware they pertain to.