[newbie] Likely dumb questions...but

2002-04-05 Thread Charlie
Howdy; I now have MD 8.2 (single boot, no other OS) on this old clunker and it seems everything works... well mostly.. sort of. Specs: ABit BX6 Rev.2 PIII 500 MHz 512 MB SDRAM Riva TNT 16 MB Soundblaster Live! Value Digital (2) Maxtor HDD 13 GB (original) and 60 GB Liteon 40X

Re: [newbie] Likely dumb questions...but

2002-04-05 Thread Damian
Second silliness that I'm sure is something simple: I can read and write to preformatted floppies but can't get a CD to open in either drive. Even as 'su' You do not have enough permissions to... What have I messed up? Hints would be greatly appreciated. TIA Charlie no idea

Re: [newbie] Likely dumb questions...but

2002-04-05 Thread Charlie
Damian's message on Friday 05 April 2002 04:24 pm, stated: no idea about your firewall, but this may be caused by supermount not mounting your cd's.. try inserting a cd in your drive and, in a terminal, type: mount /mnt/cdrom and see if you can check it then. HTH Damian