Quote Originally Posted by Tortoise
How do I know what my real drives are called ie,
dmesg | less

I can create mountpoint for my two cdrws, but unless they point to the real things, they won't work - is there a command to tellme what linux is calling my different drives so that I can hook them up?
If you have cdr or cdrw drives then you'll need to use SCSI emulation. Since you booted the Knoppix cd and installed I'm sure it is already set up that way. Do this:

cat /proc/scsi/scsi

Now you should see your cdrw drives. Actually you'll see everything on the SCSI BUS.

0,0,0 - CDRW
0,1,0 - DVD

(Those are just examples- your mileage may vary) You can call your drives anything you like which makes things alot easier. Here's how:

ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrw

Translated literally ln link -s symbolicly/dev/scd0 the actual name of your cdrw /dev/cdrw the name of your new symbolic link.

Now for the test to see what /dev/cdrw really points to do this:
ls -al /dev/cdrw

It should now indicate that /dev/dvdrw is actually nothing more than a symbolic link to the actual device of /dev/scd0

I am having the same trouble with my usb floppy, which I also cannot find!
Thanks for the help,
OK USB floppy should be 1,0,0 on the SCSI bus. Do this:

cat /proc/scsi/scsi

-OR-

cdrecord -scanbus

to be certain.

Then do this:

ln -s /dev/sda1 /dev/floppy

Again then:

ls -al /dev/floppy

Should tell you that /dev/floppy is really just a symbolic link (a representation if you will) of /dev/sda1

Make sense?