Hello all,

I feel like I'm missing something very basic, but I cannot get my cdrom to mount after installing Slack 12. I've read through the sticky not on HAL, and added users to the plugdev and cdrom groups. The cdrom drive shows up in the Gnome file manager now, but trying to mount it causes the error "special device /dev/cdrom does not exist."

Here is my fstab:
/dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda3 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hdd1 /storage vfat auto,rw,umask=000 1 0
#/dev/sdd1 /camera vfat noauto,user,rw,umask=000 1 0
#/dev/sdb1 /zen vfat noauto,user,rw,umask=000 1 0
#/dev/sdc1 /portable auto noauto,user,rw,umask=000
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user,ro 0 0
#/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0

the commented lines remain from before I got HAL working, but the only other change was to uncomment the cdrom line.

Any ideas?

To see what the device name is, do "dmesg|grep CD". My optical drives are all hd-something.

"lshw" will also give you the device name. (My system did not come with lshw by default, but it was in the repositories)

/dev/cdrom is a symlink to your real drive, but slackware can only guess which one it is. you can let it point to the correct one by editing /etc/udev-or-hal-and-something/75-optical-devices.rules

if there is /dev/hdc in your /dev directory then change the line in /etc/fstab from /dev/cdrom to /dev/hdc...

/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user,ro 0 0 (BEFORE)

/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user,ro 0 0 (AFTER)

It won't necessarily be /dev/hdc..