Atheist Bastard wrote: > > I have just in the last few weeks started to mess with Linux. I have > successfully installed Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 on an old P100 box with > CDROM. My problem is that I want to investigate the contents of the > CDROMs that I have, but nothing I have found that talks about anything > like directory commands explains at all how to specify another drive to > look at. I purchased the official Debian GNU/Linux book/CDROM set and a > fat book from Que with Red Hat/Caldera/Debian, a friend gave me an older > book for Slackware, and I've read a bunch of stuff online. What am I > missing? Am I just being dense? Help!
Nah, you're not being dense; it's just a different culture. Give it a few months and you'll be up to speed. Linux DOS ----- --- ls = dir cp = copy mv = move rm = delete cd = cd rmdir = rd mkdir = md Examples: "cd /etc/menu" changes to the directory named "/etc/menu" "cd ~/docs" changes to the docs directory under your home directory "cd /" changes to the root directory "rm foo" deletes the file named foo "rm -r foodir" deletes the directory named foodir and everything below it (careful with this one) To look at files on a different disk/drive, you first have to mount that drive (this is a fairly tough concept for users from the DOS/Windows world). The usual "name" of the first floppy drive is /dev/fd0. To mount it, you'd give a command such as "mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy" which means to mount the first floppy drive which is ms-dos formatted and access it via the directory /floppy. The /floppy directory must exist prior to this command. To mount/access the cdrom, you'd use a command like "mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /cdrom" or "mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt". In this case the /cdrom or /mnt directory must exist before the command is given. Then you can "cd /floppy" or "cd /cdrom" and then "ls" to see what files are there. HTH.