Quote Originally Posted by uraclea2002
cd to your /mnt directory and check that your /cdrom and /cdrom1 are not symlinks. I had this problem after the hd install. Deleting and making new directory worked great. The fstab looks good to me, but, I am a newb also.
did you just delete the symlinks and do

mkdir cdrom
mkdir cdrom1

what then? how to make the new directories act as the dvd and cdrom?

<--- more n00b

none of this is making much sense to me, but its definitely annoying.

i dont know where my optical drives *should* be on this sytem to being with, perhaps if i did i could find out if they are and mount them myself. as it is.....ill just pretend theyre non existant, and ask "how do i add an optical drive?"