[plug] stupid newbie question

[John Knight]

I'm sorry, but this isn't a newbie question. I'm somewhat of a newbie myself 
but have delved into a bit of "hardqore" (do you like the q?) command line 
areas. I don't know how to fix this myself after a half-year or so of 
experience, so it's not so bad.

Sorry for wasting your time there (well, sort of), but try out 
www.linuxnewbie.com as a good source of info, that's what I use.

>
>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. 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). 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.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>looking forward to a crash free existence,
>
>Tim
>
>oh btw I live in Canning Vale, anybody in my neighbourhood?
>
>


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