[TriLUG] any clues?

[rpjday]

On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Jeremy P wrote:

> On Mon, 26 Nov 2001, Beth Ellison wrote:
> 
> > Some guy wrote the documentation department here at Red Hat, said that he
> > might as well ask Forrest Gump as look in our books for anything useful, and
> > then sent me the following "description" of his problem. I have no idea what
> > this says and I find the guy kind of entertaining. Any clue what the hell
> > he's talking about? (and yes, I've already asked some people who work here 
> > about
> > it--I'm just curious what you guys might have to say).
> 
> The following commands will fix his problem:
> rm /dev/cdrom
> ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom
> 
> How'd I do? :)
> 
> He actually did provide a fairly good description, even if it mostly
> consisted of cutting-and-pasting stuff -- he cut-n-pasted the relevant
> stuff.  (The problem of course being that the /dev/cdrom symlink points to
> /dev/scd0 instead of the correct /dev/hdc )

but ... but ... i have /dev/cdrom1 -> /dev/scd0 on my inspiron (cdrom1,
since that drive is the fixed optical CD-RW/DVD drive, while i have
a modular CD-ROM drive).  so linking directly to /dev/scd0 seems to
work just fine for me.

rday