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Re: CDROM to hdd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Stearns)
Tue Nov 3 23:55:34 1998
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 23:58:19 -0500 (EST)
From: William Stearns <wstearns@pobox.com>
To: Red Hat Linux Mailing List <redhat-list@redhat.com>
cc: John Mayson <jmayson@mindspring.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.981103224054.493A-100000@ms403941>
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On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, John Mayson wrote:
> Just shoot me if you're sick of my questions. ;-)
Not at all...keep 'em coming!
> During my musical drive swapping, my CD-ROM moved from hdb to hdd. I'm
> assuming I can go to the /etc directory, delete the file /etc/cdrom, then
> relink that to /etc/hdd? Is that right?
I suspect you meant to ask, Can I relink /dev/hdd to /dev/cdrom?
The answer to that is yes, no problem.
For those that might be new to how this might be done:
Login as root
cd /dev
ls -al cdrom
If it's a symbolic link pointing to the wrong device, ala:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Date time /dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdb
do:
rm -f /dev/cdrom
ln -sf /dev/hdd /dev/cdrom
Cheers,
- Bill
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