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[Bill Kenworthy]

James, for the cdrom problem you need to post the contents of /etc/fstab
first off.  Also have you tried to mount it under root, not just user? 
Mandrake only allows some mounts as root out-of-the-box, but does give
an error message.  Also, check dmesg.  Last point, is it a cdwriter?

As for Murdoch (and any university), tutors get paid per hour for
teaching the courses - I currently run ~3 hours for every hour I get
paid for - not a good incentive to put in any extra!  A number of tutors
(and others) from Murdoch are on this list and have a quite large range
of experiance!  Comments on tutor motivation and competancy aside,
problems such as you are having are better directed to the list here as
there is usually a wider range of experiance available for the
"difficult" problems.  

BillK

On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 00:18, James Elliott wrote:
> Hi Everybody
> 
> I have just joined your e-mail list.  I am a mature age, external student of

> It is reasonably hard work, learning Linux from zero to a reasonable level
> of competency, as Universities demand, in one semester (about 15 weeks), so
> if anyone is prepared to answer the occasional question, I would be much
> obliged.  We are assigned Tutors, but anything even slightly off the course
> material, and they are not interested - like why my CD-ROM won't mount under
> Red Hat 7.2 when it worked fine under 7.1?
> 
> Anyway ,,, some of your e-mails are filtering through already and I look
> forward to participating in this forum.
> 
> Kind regards,