[plug] mounting CD in DVD drive

[Bernard Blackham]

On Sun, 29 Oct 2000 navarre at plug.linux.org.au wrote:
> I have a funny with my new DVD ROM drive acting as CD ROM drive under 
> Linux.
Can't help you there... wrong drivers spring to mind, but nothing specific

> Secondary question - to create the console text above I ran the prompt as 
> root, the error text scrolled off the screen, using shift page up I 
> scrolled back the console buffer which I grabed using gpm, scrolled back 
> and created a text file using ed added the text fro the gpm buffer into 
> the new document, then suspended ed went back and grabed the rest of the 
> error text, put ed in foreground pasted the secong gpm buffer closed the 
> file and there I have it. Was there another way? I thing you can redirect 
> stderr to a file yes/no?

Type a command and follow it by &> filename.out to dump stdout and stderr
to that file, eg. "mount &> mount.list" will redirect both stdout and
stderr to whatever file. For more details type "man bash" and look up the
part on "REDIRECTION".

Regards,

Bernard.

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 Bernard Blackham
 dagobah at mad.scientist.com