[plug] stupid newbie question

[Christian Müller]

Tim,

edit the /etc/fstab file, there should be a line which has something like

/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto and then it says either default, users, etc and is 
followed by some numbers. If it says user, change the it to users, I think 
that should work. also read the man page for fstab, that should give you 
more information than I just gave you here. just type

$ man fstab

at your prompt and it should tell you all you need to know.

Christian

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At 11:39 30/08/2001 +0800, you wrote:
>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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