edgy->feisty cdrom mountpoint

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Tue Mar 27 20:06:20 BST 2007


On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 06:46:56PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Michael Vogt [2007-03-27 17:51 +0200]:
> > I noitced that the mount point for the cdrom on a edgy system is
> > usually something like:
> > 
> > """
> > /dev/hda        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0
> > """
> > 
> > In feisty the cdrom device is /dev/scd0 so mounting does no longer
> > work for tools that try to mount via the mount-point (apt-cdrom is one
> > example). 
> 
> Which systems does that affect in particular? My /dev/cdrom is
> /dev/hdb, as it has always been.

It probably affects the same systems which had their hard discs change from
/dev/hd* to /dev/sd*.

We should surely be using /dev/cdrom or similar instead.

-- 
 - mdz



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