Actually, that is just a thing they do to make it more user friendly.  
/dev/cdrom is just a symlink to the actual device.

[kremer at RHINTTEST kremer]$ ls -l /dev/cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            8 Sep 11 15:59 /dev/cdrom -> 
/dev/hdd

Joe, have you used this particular media before?  If not, did you do a 
md5sum on the CD's?  RH9 actually has that built into their CD's now.  
Boot off the CD and when given a boot: prompt, type "linux mediacheck" 
and it will check all your CD's for you.  If it comes up bad, verify 
the md5sum of the ISO(s) you burned the CD's from, and then if all is 
well, try burning again.

On Wednesday, October 1, 2003, at 12:13 PM, Tim Sinks wrote:

> it might be cdrom1 and not  letter or just cdrom.
> My drives are labeled in rh9 as cdrom and cdrom1. also, if you have m$ 
> on
> the disk lookat it's designation. it may not be recognizing the drive 
> type.
> do a text install to get the drive  in the system
> Tim Sinks

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Justin Kremer
<kremer at ringworld.org>


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