that worked !! thanks so much. betty i. www.WebCanine.com research & information for people who care for dogs > Yes, either change /dev/cdrom in fstab or create a link to /dev/scd0 > for /dev/cdrom. The latter is what I've generally done, but it doesn't > play well with udev, so I'd suggest the former for now. > ciao, > der.hans > -- #