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Re: CDROM to hdd
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Mayson)
Wed Nov 4 00:07:08 1998
Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 23:04:33 -0600 (CST)
From: John Mayson <jmayson@mindspring.com>
To: William Stearns <wstearns@pobox.com>
cc: Red Hat Linux Mailing List <redhat-list@redhat.com>
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Thanks... I figured that's all there was to it, but with the luck I've
been having lately... ;-)
---
John Mayson <jmayson@mindspring.com>
"Linux... the choice of a GNU generation"
On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, William Stearns wrote:
> 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
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Unix _is_ user friendly. It's just very selective about who its friends
> are. And sometimes even best friends have fights.
> William Stearns (wstearns@pobox.com)
> Mason, buildkernel, and named2hosts are at: http://www.pobox.com/~wstearns
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
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