CD Repository for Synaptic

Colin Watson cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Fri Jan 28 09:50:18 UTC 2005


On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 01:07:20PM -0600, rellik wrote:
> you may consider adding a symlink "/cdrom -> /dev/hdc"...  there are
> programs out there (ie synaptic) that will expect your CD drive to be
> at /cdrom and adding the link will save you from having to change each
> program's settings explicitly.  

/cdrom is the mount point, while /dev/hdc is the device file. Adding
that symlink will probably just result in confusion. In Matthew's layout
a /cdrom -> /mnt/hdc symlink would be useful, though.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]




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