Debian CD mounting issue [was: Re: [plug] Fedora Core 5 - Install]

[Alastair Irvine]

On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 09:33 pm, hatari wrote:

> Interesting, Kev.  After emailing today I loaded Debian (for the
> first time) and it seemed OK for a while.  However, it wouldn't
> let me mount a CD using the menu lnk because a service isn't

Which menu are you referring to?  

Did you have any specific info on the service that's not running?  
Also, what is your distro version as stored in /etc/debian_version?

> started.  After hunting around for ages (typical in Linux) it is
> obvious that I can't find any (GUI) form used to adjust (ALL)
> Services.  I do not want to get into the cmd line yet.  Can you
> tell me where (in Debian) to find a Services control panel?  P.S.

On that point, I've noticed that www.linuxquestions.org seems to 
show up frequently in searches like that.  I guess it makes sense 
in many cases to do targetted searches (e.g. LQ, 
http://www.google.com/linux) rather than just using the normal 
Google search box.  Remember to search your distro's bug reports 
page.  (E.g. <http://www.debian.org/Bugs/>)

PS -- Linux doesn't have a "list of services".  AFAIK, under Linux a 
service is just a generic name for a process that accepts local or 
network connections; this differs from a daemon, which in most 
cases is a process that performs its own work in the background.  
However, there is no "standard" usage for these terms.

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Alastair Irvine, Warpspace IT <http://www.warpspace.net/>
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