Installing a new DVD drive

[Neil Woolford]

Hi all,

I've just acquired an elderly DVD ROM drive, which I'm trying to install on 
my Ubuntu machine.

HAL detects it correctly as /dev/hdd and I can both manually mount it and 
play audio CDs with it.

What I'd like to know is how to add it to the automatic system so that it 
is available straight away
in the Gnome desktop Computer->Discs.  Do I need to manually edit fstab and 
parts of the Gnome
configuration, or can I run part of the system setup tools to install it 
automatically?

Neil

PS  I appreciate that I will also need to download and install appropriate 
codecs etc to be able to
play DVD movies;  for the moment I'm just aiming to get the drive to show 
up in Gnome from the off.


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