No CDROM

[Clive Boughton]

Charles, Doug,

I've just installed YDL 3.0.1 on my "old" G4 TiBook (400MHz variety). 
Getting airport going was my first challenge, but having loaded the YDL 
OS I cannot access my CDROM (either).  I didn't receive the "can't read 
superblock" message like you Charles, but I did receive a message 
telling me that the device didn't exist in the fstab.  I edited that 
file but then was informed that the device /dev/cdrom didn't actually 
exist when I tried doing a mount.

Looking around, there's no /dev/cdrom.

I tried your "eject -t /dev/hdb" command and it seems that there's no 
/dev/hdb either and so I receive the message of "device does not exist". 
  I tried this simply because I have a CD stuck in the drive.

Well, all I can say is "PATHETIC!!" Yellow Dog.  I had the impression 
that YD actually represented the leading edge on Linux for PowerPC and 
in particular Apple hardware.  If my experiences with getting the 
airport connection going is anything to go buy, I'd say that YD is 
really winging it!  I'm glad I had the foresight to get all the airport 
settings and etails before I trounced MacOS.  Unfortinately, I didn't 
see something as basic as CDROM setup and activation as a possible 
problem.  Oh! Well!  But, maybe I'm being too harsh!  YD is hardly 
mainstream yet and since the software is pretty cheap, I guess resources 
might be a problem.  On the other hand, to overcome poor resources it is 
best to put in place really good practices to save time and effort.

Look forward to a reply from anyone who can provide help.

Thanks in advance.

Clive.