[plug] stupid newbie question

[psteege at tpg.com.au]

You should be able to:

1.  Enter "su" and then your root password when asked.   (this logs 
you in as root to mount the cdrom).
2.  Do a "mount /mnt/cdrom"
3.  Do a "ls /mnt/cdrom" and see the contents of the cdrom.
4.  Do a "exit" to return to the user you were when you logged in.
5.  Do an "ls /mnt/cdrom" and still see the listing of the cdrom.
6.  Then you can use Konqueror or whatever to view files..

Normally a Mandrake install will load programs which will automount 
your cd whenever you install it, and automatically start konqueror.

Good luck


> 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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