Hey i've got a new Slackware 8.1 install, kindly setup by my neighbour but he neglected to setup my CD /RW. I was wondering if anyone would be nice enough to explain home to add it to my fstab file. I'd like to do it myself as a learning experience, rather than get my neighbour round.

This is the contents of my fstab file at the moment.
/dev/hda1 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0


the CD in the file already is my DVD ROM, My hard drive is primary master the DVD is primary slave and the CDR/W i want to install is secondary master. THX.

/dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrw iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0

qnd in your lilo.conf, asuming you are using lilo, you'll need to add to the correct part, and then re-run lilo as root. replace hdc with the correct ide location for the burner. that sohould be all you need. try searching this site for any more info.

I'll give it a try