Ellen, Sounds like you have some basic problems with the setup of the CDROM - probably as a result of supermount. Here is an example of me mounting a CD with supermount switched off:
[brian@daw brian]$ mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom mount: only root can do that [brian@daw brian]$ su Password: [root@daw brian]# mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only [root@daw brian]# ls /mnt/cdrom autorun.inf dosutils/ INSTALL.txt Mandrake/ tutorial/ Boot/ images/ LICENSE-APPS.txt misc/ VERSION COPYING index.htm LICENSE.txt README.txt doc/ install.htm live_update* RPM-GPG-KEYS [root@daw brian]# umount /mnt/cdrom [root@daw brian]# eject /dev/cdrom Now, if you do this, where does it fail and what does it say? Maybe you can post a console session like the one above along with the output from the commands: ll /mnt ll /dev/cdrom It would also be useful to see the contents of your /etc/fstab and /etc/lilo.conf files. Sorry if that sounds like a lot, but armed with that info, we can certainly sort out your problem. To get the console text into an e-mail, just highlight the text in the console window, then click into the window in which you are writing your post and click the middle mouse button to paste the highlighted text. If you only have a two button mouse, clicking both buttons at once will do it. HTH Brian On Sun, 2002-04-14 at 07:54, Ellen Slater wrote: > I have tried the command line previously and just now. > The error returns that no such directory exist. > I have tried on the package manager. Nothing shows in cdroms directory. > I tried to add source in software manager (?) > I am at a loss of what to do next (?) > Thanks. > > > Brian wrote: You first need to mount it. If you have supermount working this is just > a matter of clicking on the CDROM icon that's probably on your desktop. > If not, or if this desn't work: > > 1. start a console > 2. become root > 3. type "mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom" > 4. now the files on your cd are on /mnt/cdrom > > You can now use tar to decompress them as you would off a hard drive. > > The supermount problem means that some of the above may not work. > /dev/cdrom may not exist etc. etc. Best thing is to try first and ask > again if something seems broken. >
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