Laptop Reccomendation

[Jim Smith]

Gabriel Dragffy wrote:
> Jim Smith wrote:
>   
>>> Surely if you fire up the computer, then put a cd in the drive, linux 
>>> will do it's thing and then give you an icon for it?
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> No it does not. If you try to use any Linux DVD player (xine, mplayer
>> etc.) the error message is "No device /dev/scd0." As above. If however,
>> the disc is in the drive _at bootup_ then the disc is recognised, the
>> icon is displayed and disc can be played normally. Also, if there is a
>> disc in the drive at boot and then that disc is ejected all subsequent
>> discs are recognised when loaded. In short there has to be some sort of
>> disc, even a blank will do, in the drive at boot for the drive to work.
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>     
>
> How queer.
> I have no idea about that, but then I am a n00b with gnu/linux. What do 
> you have written in to your fstab?
>
>   
Looks OK reads as follows:
> /dev/scd0       /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0
This was one of the first things I looked at. Unless there is some kind
of disc in the drive /dev/scd0 is not created at boot.

Jim