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Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 18:20:10 -0800
From: Rob <europax@home.com>
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To: Drew Sanford <drew@planetwe.com>
Cc: Joshua Delong Thomas <jdt2101@ksu.edu>,
	Tim McMillen <timcm@umich.edu>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: How to change acd0 to /dev/cdrom like most programs want
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Drew Sanford wrote:
> 
> Joshua Delong Thomas wrote:
> >
> > <PossibleStupidQuestion>
> > That post about mounting a cd made me think of
> > another question.  Most
> > programs that I've used that utilize the cd default to /dev/cdrom as the
> > cdrom device.  Is there a way to make my cdrom device be /dev/cdrom0
> > instead of acd0?  Most of these programs are small, mp3 rippers, small cd
> > players with no .config or .conf file so I was just curious.
> > </PossibleStupidQuestion>
> >
> > -Josh
> 
> I would think creating /dev/cdrom as a link to acd0 would do the trick.
> 
> --
> Drew Sanford
> Systems Administrator
> Planetwe.com
> Email: drew@planetwe.com
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Alot of programs rely on an environment variable to point to the cd
player device, if forget exacltly, something like export
CDPLAYER=/dev/acd0c did the trick for me.  Rob.


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