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Pastimes : Linux OS.: Technical questions -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Judd who wrote (131)	11/23/1998 10:35:00 AM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 484

I erased a cdrom device in /dev and then I renoded it by mknod. I was having trouble getting the machine to find the cdrom when mounting. It would skip the attempt to mount until I did it a second time. Anyway now I notice that when I attempt to mount /dev/cdrom it does not see it at all. The link is there for cdrom ---> /dev/cdrom* I made it a symbolic link. Seems to me to get cdrom to point to /dev/blah that is what you want right? Not then other way around? * now I went and forgot the device name. But I put in my own major and minor numbers. That could be the flaw. I forgot those too but I think it was 3, 22 or something like that. Perhaps that was the fatal flaw. RH 5.1 EC<:-}

To: Judd who wrote (131)	11/23/1998 10:36:00 AM
From: Gerald Walls	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 484

Also, if you use CompuServe, you need to switch to 7 bits do the password stuff and then switch to 8 bits. I use dip because I couldn't figure out how to get chat to do 7 bits. I couldn't figure out how to switch in Chat either, but just for the hell of it I tried it with nothing special and it worked so I guess CIS strips the high bit if present during password entry. I've since left CIS after 12 years to go with a provider that supports 56K modems for $5 less per month.