On Wed, 07 Jan 2004 11:37:13 -0600, William Winkler typed:

> I recently installed Red Hat 7 on an old computer I hadn't gotten around
> to throwing out. It installed OK from CD, but after that I couldn't get
> to the CD player. I tried a mount command:
>
> mount -r -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

<snip>

> Any ideas whether Linux can get to this CD player? It seems odd that
> the Linux installer can operate the CD player, but Linux itself can't!

Try using the command as root from the console or xterm session:
/sbin/depmod -ae


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