On Wednesday 24 December 2003 16:28, John wrote: > On Wednesday 24 December 2003 14:28, John wrote: > > I need help getting use of my cdrom. I asked last week and didn't > > have time to make changes to the fstab file that I received from > > Anne and another before installing the xfree security update. > > Xfree was removed and now I can't use the cdrom either. I have md > > 9.2 coming any day now and this seemed to be a good time to > > switch. System would not boot to 9.1 cd when restarting and I > > don't know if the 9.2 cd will work. Any help would be > > appreciated. > > Best wishes for the holidays > > John > > For XFree86, the links have been mended now, so it should be > possible to urpmi XFree86 from the command line. If it returns a > whole list of packages and drops back to the command line, try to > identify which ones will be the most important. Install them by > urpmi, and with any luck they will pick up the other essential ones > as dependencies and install them for you. > > Anne > > I tried the vi fstab. It came up as a new file. I must have done > something wrong. I also tried urpmi xfree86 incorrectly. I am lost > when it comes to the command line. Will keep trying anything > suggested. Sorry for the confusion on the email reply. Hope this > works better. > Thanks > John
I forgot to say, either cd to /etc, or vi /etc/fstab Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet?
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