[plug] mounting CD in DVD drive

[Leon Brooks]

navarre at plug.linux.org.au wrote:
> I have a funny with my new DVD ROM drive acting as CD ROM drive under
> Linux.

My 6xDVD works fine under Linux, but won't boot a CD for love-nor-money.

> 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?

    program 2>name_of_file

Also, ``cat >file'' is generally adequate for cut-n-paste.

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