NORMAN HAKIM YAHYA
--- On Fri, 6/27/08, Eduardo Otubo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Eduardo Otubo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problem mounting cdrom,cdrw,usb > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Date: Friday, June 27, 2008, 10:04 AM > Norman, > > First understand one thing: The terminal is always a good > friend :-) > Second, let's explain the fstab: Fstab (filesystem > table) is a table > with all the specification for you filesystem. Check this > out: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fstab. To check the content of > fstab just > type this on you terminal: > > $ cat /etc/fstab > > (and paste here the result of this command) > > Third, to mount manually a device, you need to know first > which device > is what on your Linux. Usually, cdrom is some /dev/hdc > thing. Then, to > mount it: > > $ mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom > > The strange things is: How did you installed gentoo without > knowing > this issues? :-) > > Hope this 2 cents helps you. > Eduardo, I have checked the content of fstab and this is the result: /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda2 none swap s w 0 0 /dev/hda3 / ext3 noatime 0 1 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 Honestly, at first when i installed gentoo,i just installed it by using the handbook and i thought it will be no problem. Actually this is my first time using Linux and i never have any experience using it before. Regards, Norman -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
