Functionality IS lost when I have programs that cannot access the CD/DVD drive because they are looking for a /dev/cdrom or /dev/hdc mount point and wonderful Suse 10.2 won't provide it. Why not? Who knows.
I'm curious what applications or programs you are having issues with. I've had just one application (X-Plane) take issue with the way mount points are handled in SUSE, and that is because the installer is poorly (or badly?) programed. The workaround in this case it to sym link /mnt/dvd to /media/XPLANE and it works fine... not the most elegant solution, but the fault (in my opinion) is the X-Plane installer not HAL or anything related to how SUSE implements mount points.
Otherwise all applications I have that need to access the DVD writer or DVD reader I have in my PC work perfectly.
C. Well, not exactly CD/DVD, but: -anytime I connect my external disk for backup, the two partitions on it are named differently, which does not really simply my rsync scripts
Clayton wrote: that I use for backup. -anytime I connect my usb-Stick, it is named differently and I need to access it under a different name. Not a big issue, nothing I cannot handle but, please forgive me, seems to come from a hmmm... sick brain. If this is the way it is supposed to work, I REALLY prefer the classic unix way of mounting something manually, without any polish and bells and whistles. At least this worked how it was meant to be. just my 0.02 cents and regards and I apologize, but I could not resist. Eberhard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org