[plug] stupid newbie question

[Robert Andrews]

When you say you log in as admin do you mean 'root'

----- Original Message -----
From: Tim <cawdor9 at yahoo.com>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 1:00 AM
Subject: [plug] stupid newbie question


> 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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