[plug] stupid newbie question

[Clinton Butler]

Tim wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> this is my first post so please don't flame me for asking stupid newbie
> questions :) Anyway I got sick of Window$ and finally took the time to try
> out Mandrake 8.

Good choice... I made a mistake and went to Debian to start with... and had
no idea what I was doing... I have since learned quite a bit.... but I'm still
classed as a newbie :oP

> Installation went ok and I started to play around in KDE. I
> have a CD with Linux goodies so I wanted to take a look at it but after
> about one hour of fiddling and reading help files I gave up trying to find
> a way to access my cdrom. My two cd drives seem to already be mounted,
> there are /mnt/cdrom and /mnt/cdrom2 directories, but they are locked
> (whatever that means).

I have a feeling there is something wrong with your automount... that is..
assuming that Mandrake 8 has automount... 7.2 did have you tried opening an
x-term and typing 'mount /mnt/cdrom/' or 'mount /mnt/cdrom2/'   ?

> when I click on them, I get a message saying that I
> don't have privileges to read that directory, even when I log in as admin.
> Can someone please give me step-by-step instructions on how I can access my
> cdrom? I looked it up in the hardware section and it is displayed as /dev/hdc
> If you need any more info in order to help me please let me know.

the CDROMs are /dev/hdc1 and /dev/hdc2?

> looking forward to a crash free existence,
>

well.... some of us can manage to crash a linux box... but it's hard to do.
nothing ssh or telnet can't fix remotely :o)

> oh btw I live in Canning Vale, anybody in my neighbourhood?

sorry pal... I'm in Samson

anyways... enough from me for now... good luck.. enjoy your new OS :o)

regards,

Clinton Butler

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