[Gllug] Failed to open cd device cdroms/cdrom0

[Chris Bell]

On Thu 03 Feb, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 01:45:14PM +0000, Chris wrote:
> > On Tue 01 Feb, Ian Norton wrote:
> >    Debian may be changing labels from /dev/cdrom to /media/cdrom
> 
> Not sure what you mean by that.  /media/cdrom would be a mount point,
> /dev/cdrom would either be a symlink to a device node or simply a device
> node.  They aren't the same thing and Debian wouldn't be changing either
> one into the other.
> 
> If the mount point has been changed, the most likely culprit would be
> discover.  The op's message is about /dev/cdroms/cdrom, however, which
> is a devfs-ism.
> 
> -- 
> Bruce

   I am not sure of the reasoning, but I gather that devfs may now be
deprecated, and the Debian team are trying to follow the new policy.

-- 
Chris Bell

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