[plug] stupid newbie question

[Russell Hobman]

Goodaye, 
I agree that the best source of information would be to post to the newbie
list. the address is  .....  newbie at linux-mandrake.com.   
I recall someone else having a similar problem, check out their archives to
find out what to do. if you can't find the answer for you, then you can post
your own query. cheers, Russell.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	John Knight [SMTP:anarchist_tomato at hotmail.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, August 30, 2001 11:49 AM
> To:	plug at plug.linux.org.au
> Subject:	Re: [plug] stupid newbie question
> 
> 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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