Re: [newbie] Help: Sound and Iomega Zip drive

2000-12-10 Thread Rosiher Sibaja
From one newbie to another The best solution to installing a sound card is; log out and go to "console" mode then use use "sndconfig" to install the sound card. As far as the zip drive is concerned, you may need to unmount the drive. The quickest way to do that is hit ALT-F2 to bring up the

Re: [newbie] No Cd-rom or CDrw as root?

2000-11-21 Thread Rosiher Sibaja
I have the exact same problems. I got my CDs from Wal-mart. I thought it was something I screwed-up, as I am still learning. I would like to hear from anyone who knows what the problem might be. Jon Doe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow, just installed the cheapbytes 7.2 and even as root I don't

[newbie] Cannot supermount CDs or floppy

2000-11-14 Thread Rosiher Sibaja
I recently re-compiled my kernel in order to provide SCSI-simulation support for my CDRW (My understanding is you have to trick the system into thinking your IDE CDRWs are actually SCSI devices) after doing this all my CDROM and floppy directories, came up as locked directories. I went into