finding cdrom during boot?

[e1000]

I am trying to create a bootable linux distro and I have basically everything I need, except for one little thing thats been buging me.

in order to use a loopback device on a CDrom, one must first figure out the drive designation of the CDrom. (hda,hdb etc...) then the easiest thing to do would be to make a symlinked /dev/cdrom to it.

my question is; how does knoppix figure out the designation of the users CDrom drive during boot?

[Ambrose]

Check out the knoppix-autoconfigure set of scripts.

I think they're on sourceforge?

- Ambrose

[e1000]

I cant seem to find them at sourceforge or in google. does anyone else have any ideas? on how knoppix does this (or how to find out)

[e1000]

if someone could find the initrd and unzip it then mount it "mount -o loop /file /mountpoint" then post the /linuxrc file on the internet. Ii would be eternally gratefull, I use lnx-bbc which although being knoppix its differet and i cant seem to figure out how its startup scripts do the job.

and at the current time i cant seem to find my copy of knoppix, and with 56k a download is out of the question.