Re: [newbie] mounting CD drive

2003-07-06 Thread John Richard Smith
Michael wrote: never used the cd burning programs in linux, so i have no preference. personally, i'll go with whatever will work easily, and do what i want, which includes doing data, pictures, music, and video. yes i am running md9.1 charlie says all writer need scsi-emulation and he knows

Re: [newbie] mounting CD drive

2003-07-06 Thread Michael
On Sunday 06 July 2003 01:49 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: >> root terminal and >> type mount -a >> that will mount everything in fstab afresh. >> just to make sure, i type "mount -a" no quotations, right? good to know! thanks! > >> Yes, scsi emulation is fake ide , if you like. Some programme

Re: [newbie] mounting CD drive

2003-07-06 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 06 July 2003 10:32 am, Michael wrote: > On Saturday 05 July 2003 06:19 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > > in /etc/fstab , check every char is identicle including spaces, to, > > none /mnt/cdrom supermount > > dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,rw,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 > > ok,

Re: [newbie] mounting CD drive

2003-07-06 Thread John Richard Smith
Michael wrote: On Saturday 05 July 2003 06:19 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: in /etc/fstab , check every char is identicle including spaces, to, none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,rw,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 ok, opened a terminal, "su", password, kwrit

Re: [newbie] mounting CD drive

2003-07-06 Thread Michael
On Saturday 05 July 2003 06:19 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > in /etc/fstab , check every char is identicle including spaces, to, > none /mnt/cdrom supermount > dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,rw,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 > ok, opened a terminal, "su", password, kwrite, opened up fs

Re: [newbie] mounting CD drive

2003-07-06 Thread John Richard Smith
Michael wrote: On Saturday 05 July 2003 06:19 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Essentially , if you want the nice easy gui way, just navigate to the file in question,via home to / and click on the desired directories to the file in question, then right mouse click the icon for that file , then "o

Re: [newbie] mounting CD drive

2003-07-05 Thread Michael
On Saturday 05 July 2003 06:19 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > Essentially , if you want the nice easy gui way, just navigate to the > file in question,via home to / and click on the desired directories to > the file in question, then right mouse click the icon for that file , > then "open with",

Re: [newbie] mounting CD drive

2003-07-05 Thread John Richard Smith
Michael wrote: On Saturday 05 July 2003 02:16 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Do you know how to use a text editor ? how hard is it? if it's simply deleting some text and entering new text in it's place, i'm sure i can handle it, if i'm told where to do it, what i need to change and w

Re: [newbie] mounting CD drive

2003-07-05 Thread Eric Huff
> > Do you know how to use a text editor ? > > how hard is it? if it's simply deleting some text and entering new text in It as easy as using notepad or word (w/o the puking). You could try kate (it's pretty much like any other editor or word processor you may have used): If you are in KDE,

Re: [newbie] mounting CD drive

2003-07-05 Thread Eric Huff
> >/dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 > >none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 > >/dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 > >none /mnt/cdrom supermount > >dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 > > > this is your writer/cdrom under supermount, and ought to work fine. > But yo

Re: [newbie] mounting CD drive

2003-07-05 Thread Michael
On Saturday 05 July 2003 02:16 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > > Do you know how to use a text editor ? > how hard is it? if it's simply deleting some text and entering new text in it's place, i'm sure i can handle it, if i'm told where to do it, what i need to change and what it needs to be

Re: [newbie] mounting CD drive

2003-07-05 Thread John Richard Smith
Michael wrote: On Saturday 05 July 2003 12:50 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: /dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 this is your write

Re: [newbie] mounting CD drive

2003-07-05 Thread Michael
On Saturday 05 July 2003 12:50 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > > Go, Home directory , back to / , click on etc icon to /etc directory > , skip past the blue directories to a file called fstab. There right > mouse click fstab, and it opens in konqueror. > then copy and paste to an open composer

Re: [newbie] mounting CD drive

2003-07-05 Thread John Richard Smith
Michael wrote: On Saturday 05 July 2003 05:04 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Probably, the best thing you can do here is post /etc/fstab here to see what has happened.Then someone with more knowledge than I , can walk you through supermount. John Go, Home directory , back to / , click

Re: [newbie] mounting CD drive

2003-07-05 Thread Eric Huff
> > Probably, the best thing you can do here is post /etc/fstab here to see > > what has happened.Then someone with more knowledge than I , can walk you > > through supermount. At the command line (xterm or some other terminal) type cat /etc/fstab and send the results. > wishing that "learn man

Re: [newbie] mounting CD drive

2003-07-05 Thread Michael
On Saturday 05 July 2003 05:04 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > > Probably, the best thing you can do here is post /etc/fstab here to see > what has happened.Then someone with more knowledge than I , can walk you > through supermount. > > John i went into mandrake control center and copied this in

Re: [newbie] mounting CD drive

2003-07-05 Thread Eric Huff
> my cd-rw drive isn't mounted. i can't figure out what's wrong either, because > everything installed off the install CDs, but when i put a CD into my drive > and try to access it, linux locks up completely. when i say locks up > completely, i mean i actually have to hit the restart button on

Re: [newbie] mounting CD drive

2003-07-05 Thread John Richard Smith
Michael wrote: ok, I've accomplished something hereI figured out how to actually see and access all the info on all the partitions I have created in windows (they're all FAT32 partitions). Good. my cd-rw drive isn't mounted. i can't figure out what's wrong either, because everything install