Hi I need help finding the CD-ROM drive in SuSE Linux. In my computer I have 2 drives one is for dvd & cd writing and the other is for just reading CD-ROMS. I have a HP Pavilion a630n. I need this help because sense I can't access the internet and download the software, I just burned it from Windows XP. So can any one PLEASE help I have been trying to do this for like a month now. Oh ya and I do not want the audio cd browser

is your cd mounted?

try to mount it

in a Konsole type:

su
<password>
mkdir /media/dvdcdrw
mount /dev/hdc /media/dvdcdrw


Once it's mounted it should work.

SuSE 9.x, and 10 (I believe) automatically install optical (DVD/CD) type drives. If you want a link to your drive, which mounts itself, right click on the desktop <Create New>Device>Cdrecorder Device>click the device tab>pick the proper device, and hit ok.> Then there will be a nice icon on the desktop that you click to see the files on the disk inside the drive.

In linux, every optical drive is detected on boot. A device file, in "/dev" directory is used to control that drive. Typically, "/dev/hdc" is used for IDE optical drives on the master of one IDE channel, and "/dev/hdd" is used for drives on the slave of the same IDE channel. In the "/dev" directory the are some things called symlinks. If you open a terminal, cd to "/dev", and do:

ls -la | less

You can use the pgup pgdn keys to find "cdrecorder". There will be an arrow pointing to "/dev/hdc" or "/dev/hdd". That means "cdrecoder" is a symlink to "hdc or hdd" Then you know what you are doing a little.

There is a file in "/etc" directory called "fstab". This lists all the file systems linux has access to on the machine. You can have all kinds of different file systems. But, if you are looking for information about a file system, like the device, it should be in "fstab".

Once you know that, you can mount the DVD/CD file system with "mount", as previously mentioned. A "mount point" is a regular old directory that linux uses to mount a file system to. So, if a device has no "mount point" you have to create one in order to see the files. These directories are in "/media", or "/mnt". So, if you create one, you won't be a dork and put it in "/var" or "/opt". Although it would work there, it is a really big embarrassment waiting to happen when one of your friends sees it there.

To install an operating system, like linux, from a DVD/CD drive, it needs to be configured in the bios. If linux is already installed, and you want to install software from an optical drive, you just use "mount". Then, all the files on the CD will be in a directory in "/media"

I strongly suggest hooking up internet to linux. Linux isn't very functional without internet.

i have a similar thread started....im using SuSE 10.0 and my CD rom couldnt pick anything up using YaST Control Center, hardware, cd drives, click on the drive u wish to use and click ADD button it gives u the mount point in my instance i also have 2 drives for the first cd/rw-dvd drive "/dev/hdg" was the device name "/dev/cdrecorder" for the link and the !Mount Point!
"/media/cdrecorder" ....this seems to work for most discs but not for any disc burnt on my recently ditched windose xp pro...hope this helps some

"ok Update editing after the fact"

Everything CD/DVD ROM works wonderfully. What ever YaST did
is nice.