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Old 03-01-2004, 07:08 PM   #1
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/dev/dvd is nonexistant how do i get it?

I have my dvd drive mounted as /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom . I think this is why I am unable to play dvd's in mplayer, but i cannot mount it as /dev/dvd /mnt/cdrom because the /dev/dvd just isn't there. How do i set this up? Thank you for your time.
 
Old 03-01-2004, 07:11 PM   #2
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ln -s /dev/cdrom /dev/dvd

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Old 03-01-2004, 07:36 PM   #3
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