Re: Linux BASICS

Hi,

Thanks to all those who offered advice on my first problems with LINUX,
I now feel I am making some progress. I do, however, have a problem
getting the CD-ROM to work and I wonder if anyone can tell me where I'm
going wrong. The LINUX version is 2.0.34 Slackware release and, as it
boots up, it gives a message 'hdb: FX001DE ATAPI CDROM' which I presume
means it has found the device and identified it (the CD-Rom drive is an
older type Mitsumi 2X drive which runs on the standard driver under
Windows 95). I have tried to follow the instructions given in the Redhat
5.2 How To's about creating a symbolic link with ls -l /dev/hdb
/dev/cdrom but when I try to mount it, I get an error message saying it
can't find the driver. I have looked through the files in DragonLinux75
(which this version is distributed as) and must admit that I can't see
anything I could immediately identify as an IDE CD-Rom driver file and
also I am quite confused by the driver file section in the Redhat CDRom
HowTo.
Can anyone please provide a little more insight and tell me what I
should be looking for or what I am doing wrong. Thanks.

Best wishes

Ian

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