having followed the advice i got yesterday, i was able
satisfactorally to burn a dist, but then when i went to
mount it, i had problems.  dmessage gave the following:

  hdd: UJDA310, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive

  scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
    Vendor: MATSHITA  Model: UJDA310           Rev: 1.37
    Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 02

  Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
  sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 20x/20x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
  Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12

well, it looked to me as though /dev/sr0 should be the device
to mount, but that didn't work.  after a lot of fiddling around
i checked the /etc/fstab file i had used under rh7.3 and found
the device scd0 which now appears nowhere in dmesg.  however, it
mounts just fine.  trying to use sr0 produces:

  mount: special device /dev/sr0 does not exist

somehow i don't find this set of facts intuitive, nor do i
see how i could have guessed the proper device.  can
anyone explain how this comes to be?

tia,
ole dan

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