This is such a strange thing: When I put a new (data) cd in, I can hear the PC reading the contents. I then go to the CD symbol and try to open it and get the error message: ... the file or directory file:///mnt/cdrom does not exist.

I even tried manually creating the directory /mnt/auto/cdrom (which /mnt/cdrom points to) but the system didn't allow this (even though I was root).

I then tried to create a manual icon/link and found that, under device I could see /dev/cdrom (which had apparently been recognised) but once I had created the icon, I found that, when I tried to open it, I got "Drive could not be mounted. mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid device".

This is so strange because Knoppix seems to have detected the drive and seems to be talking to it, but I cannot access it from the desktop or in the file system.

I'll trawl through my Knoppix manual again.

Regards,
Alan Searle