[plug] Trying to watch a dvd under linux

[Jon L. Miller]

So Colin are you saying it requires a device named dvd?

Jon
On Fri, 2002-06-21 at 10:32, Colin Muller wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 08:21:36PM +1000, Buddrige, David wrote:
> > I do an ls on /dev/dvd and sure enough, there is no device file in
> > there.  However I have never created one of these before and am not
> > sure how it is done.  I am using Redhat 7.2.
> 
> If the device you have put your DVD disc into is /dev/cdrom, try
> creating a symlink from /dev/dvd to it:
> 
> ln -s /dev/cdrom /dev/dvd
> 
> If /dev/cdrom is already a symlink to something else, replace
> /dev/cdrom above with that something else. And if it's not /dev/cdrom
> you've put the disc into, change the above accordingly.
> 
> Colin
> 
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