DVD-ROM Drive Location
 

How do I figure out the location (/dev/...) of my DVD-ROM drive? Thanks.

Hello,

which kernel are you running?
if it's a 2.6X you will be using udev, which creates devices dynamically.....

The drive should already be in /dev/

is it not?

maybe it's /dev/hdc

you can link a file to /dev/hdc, but i don't see the point.

What problem are you having with the drive?

Well, I am trying to update my kernel (currently 2.4 to 2.6), and I am using the kernel on the Slack install CD. I know--I think--where the kernel is on the disk (/testing/packages/kernel26XXX or something like that), I just can't navigate to the DVD-ROM drive. BTW, I'm not running KDE or anything.

I tried cd /dev/hdc to see if that was the drive, but all I got back was "/dev/hdc is not a directory". Does anyone know how to navigate to a DVD-ROM in the console?

B-U-M-P

Sorry :(

can you mount it when you're in kde or gnome or such? if so, in command, try

mount /dev/hdd (or /dev/hdc, if thats where your dvd lives...)

cd /mnt/dvd

You won't be able to cd directly into the device. What you need to do is mount the device to a directory. If you take a look in your /etc/fstab file, you should see a line that looks like
If that's the case, then all you have to do as root is
and you should now be looking at the contents of your CD.

If the line is missing let us know and we'll help you out from there.

Finally figured it out.

In /etc/fstab it will tell you. From there I just mounted /dev/cdrom and navigated to mnt/cdrom.