[plug] Just started with linux, need help

[Ari Finander]

Okay!  Good news!  I've been able to get the cdrom/floppies/cdrive to mount 
without difficulty...but only from the root login.  From a safe user login, 
I can't get any of these to run (except cdrive, which I have set to mount at 
startup) and also can't get onto the internet (linux told me that using the 
internet under the root login was "stupid!").  When I try to have the cdrom 
mount at startup, after a while it goes berzerk again and the system 
freezes.  When I try to mount the floppy drive at startup, it doesn't 
function, because there's no disk in it.  I know I'll be flamed for saying 
this, but I kinda like the point and click activation of the windows OS for 
the floppy drive *hiding*.  With regards to Oliver's feedback: how much does 
VMWare cost?  I'd like to convert totally to linux for security reasons yet 
still have my wife able to use her win95 applications that she simply cannot 
part with.  First, though, I need to be able to use the cd-rom and get 
online from a user account as I won't be giving her root access just 
yet(she'll destroy something).

Ari
strictform at hotmail.com


----Original Message Follows----
From: Oliver White <ojw at iinet.net.au>
Reply-To: plug at linux.org.au
To: plug at linux.org.au
Subject: Re: [plug] Just started with linux, need help
Date: Sat, 02 Oct 1999 03:13:25 +0800

Ari Finander wrote:
 >
 > Hi,
 >
 > I've just finished installing redhat linux and familiarising myself with
 > some basic commands and the xwindows environment.  However, I'm wondering
 > how to get the cdrom to work through linux?

Your CD-ROM drive is likely known to the system as /dev/hdb1

To use new file systems, use the command 'mount', this includes
floppies, other hard drives, cd-rom drives and network file systems.
'man mount' will explain more.

Try using the command 'mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/cdrom'. Then cd into the
directory '/mnt/cdrom and view the files there. If /mnt/cdrom doesn't
exist you will need to create it - 'mkdir /mnt/cdrom/'.

 > Also, is it possible to run
 > windows through linux if it's on a separate partition?

You can run Windows at the same time as linux through packages like
VMWare. Note that this will consume large amounts of memory. You can
also set up your system to choose an operating system to run at boot
time. Try 'man lilo', that's LInux Loader.

 > With the cdrom
 > problem, I've used the mount cdrom command, and then when I open the 
cdrom
 > in the file manager the window flashes and then the system freezes.

Hmm, that is odd...

 >  Any
 > ideas on how to get it to work effectively?  It's an aopen eide cdrom 
40x.

Not sure...

--
Oliver White

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