PPCNUX / mcnix

Hi,

Below is what — robyinno wrote at your site on Thu, 2010-03-11 05:56 for an Ubuntu 10.04 system that will not detect a cd:
"If you prefer a clean install, it is simple and fast and you will run into little trouble. Installation will go fine, without a problem on my PowerBook G4 1.67GHz. You should burn the big image (daily over 700MB) on a DVD disk which speed up installation.
After the installation you'll have a fine and nice GNU/Linux ... but a link is missing in /dev
Link your optical drive to /dev/cdrom.
i.e. ln -s /dev/hdb /dev/cdrom
After a reboot you can eject the installation disk and when you insert an optical disk it will be mounted by the system."

I have searched everywhere for a solution to my ubuntu 10.04 ppc problem with the dvd / cdrom. It looks like this was solved on this site awhile ago. I installed Ubuntu 10.04 ppc on my iMac G4 1.25 GHz with superdrive and 1.25 GHz of memory. The operating system runs great , but the dvd / cdrom will not detect cds in the disk drive. Below, it looks like the problem can be solved by pointing hdb to the cdrom drive. On my system the cdrom seems to be defined as /dev/hdc. Is that what the problem is? In other words, do I need to delete the pointer to /dev/hdc and link it to /dev/hdb in order to get the cdrom to detect the cd? Or is the solution something else?

I am a newbie, so consider that in your reply : )

Thanks
sdgalbo