I think the following:
Code:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 5 Sep 3 10:42 /dev/sr0 -> cdrom
is wrong - you need to have /dev/cdrom pointing to sr0 -=- in the above it is backwards, but, since you did the resymlink of sr0, you no longer have a symlink for cdrom...

Take a look at all the symlinks your have for /cdrom1 device, and make then the same for /cdrom, replacing the "1" for "0" (zero)... i.e. /dev/cdrom1 -> sr1 -=- /dev/cdrom should then point to sr0, etc...

From the output of what you were doing, I was correct, you DID have a /dev/cdrom directory, proven by when you did the "rmdir /cdrom" from within the /dev directory...

You should have the following output, when doing the stated commands:
Code:
root@Morpheus:~# ls -la /dev/scd?
brw-rw----    1 root     burning   11,   0 May 30  2001 /dev/scd0
brw-rw----    1 root     burning   11,   1 May 30  2001 /dev/scd1
brw-rw----    1 root     cdrom     11,   2 May 30  2001 /dev/scd2
brw-rw----    1 root     cdrom     11,   3 May 30  2001 /dev/scd3
brw-rw----    1 root     cdrom     11,   4 May 30  2001 /dev/scd4
brw-rw----    1 root     cdrom     11,   5 May 30  2001 /dev/scd5
brw-rw----    1 root     cdrom     11,   6 May 30  2001 /dev/scd6
brw-rw----    1 root     cdrom     11,   7 May 30  2001 /dev/scd7
brw-rw----    1 root     cdrom     11,   8 May 30  2001 /dev/scd8
brw-rw----    1 root     cdrom     11,   9 May 30  2001 /dev/scd9
root@Morpheus:~# ls -la /dev/sr?
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            4 Jul  2 07:02 /dev/sr0 -> scd0
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            4 Aug  7 10:18 /dev/sr1 -> scd1
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            4 Jul  2 07:02 /dev/sr2 -> scd2
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            4 Jul  2 07:02 /dev/sr3 -> scd3
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            4 Jul  2 07:02 /dev/sr4 -> scd4
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            4 Jul  2 07:02 /dev/sr5 -> scd5
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            4 Jul  2 07:02 /dev/sr6 -> scd6
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            4 Jul  2 07:02 /dev/sr7 -> scd7
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            4 Jul  2 07:02 /dev/sr8 -> scd8
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            4 Jul  2 07:02 /dev/sr9 -> scd9
root@Morpheus:~# ls -la /dev/cdrom*
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            3 Jul  2 08:58 /dev/cdrom -> sr0
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            3 Jul  2 08:59 /dev/cdrom1 -> sr1
root@Morpheus:~#
If not, make the needed changes to reflect what is not correct...
Ms. Cuddles
EDIT: hit the "submit" too fast,...

You might not have the "burning" group yet, unless you've run K3b, since it is used for your CD-RW, it creates the group "burning" during its setup program... You should also note that the permissions on my sr#'s and cdrom devices, are Owner=all access, Group=all access, and World / Other=all access... Two ways you can do this, ( 1 ) set up a special "group" like users and chgrp all the devices to that "users" group, set "group" permissions to "all", then remove any permissions for "World / Other", or, ( 2 ) the way I did, all have all access.

Number ( 2 ) is not the most secure way of setting permissions up, but I don't have "sensitive" data on my ROM drives, so an "attack" on my ROM devices is not severe... If on the other hand, you want more of a "secure" install, go with the idea in Number ( 1 )...
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