Thomas Richter wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>>Next to a hardware power supply replacement I can't use anymore the
>>CDROM drive.I am running Mandrake 8.2 and the CDROM is mounted at boot
>>with le following line:
>>
>
>>[root@dev]# grep cdrom /etc/fstab
>>/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660
>>ro,iocharset=iso8859-15,nosuid,noauto,exec,user,nodev 0 0
>>
>
>>When I try to list either /dev/cdrom or /dev/hdc I have the message :
>>
>
>>[root@dev]# ll /dev/hdc
>>ls: /dev/hdc: Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type
>>[root@dev]# ll /dev/cdrom
>>ls: /dev/cdrom: Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type
>>
>
>>How can I restore this device file? and what should I do?
>>
>
> Sorry, I don't speak french, so I don't understand the error messages.
> But one thing for sure: You don't list the device files. Instead, you do
>
> $ mount /mnt/cdrom
> $ ls /mnt/cdrom
>
> and there the contents of the files will appear, not in the device
> files (which will rather be an abstract representation of the cdrom as
> total).
>
> So long,
> Thomas
>
>

Thank you for your advice. I tried that but it says:

[root@dev]# mount /mnt/cdrom
mount : le périphérique spécial /dev/hdc n'existe pas.

(translation: /dev/hdc deice does'nt exist.)