On Sat, 2002-03-23 at 23:40, Dennis Curnow` wrote: > G'Day Gang, > > I have files I want to access on a cdrom but don't seem to be able to list the >contents > with "ls" although "cat" gave me three and a half truck loads of gobbledegook so I >figure > the cdrom is mounted ok. > I still don't have "X" working yet so this is all done from the command prompt. > Can someone point me in the right direction please.
I am going to take a stab in the dark. I think you might be accessing /dev/cdrom. If you are you have to mount the cdrom. On redhat you can 'mount /mnt/cdrom' (others such as debian are 'mount /cdrom' so try that as well). You then access the cd through the /mnt/cdrom directory. Once you have finshed with the cd get out of the /mnt/cdrom entirely and use the command 'eject /mnt/cdrom' to get the cd out again. /dev/cdrom is raw access to the CD, you are getting everything from the CD sequentially, including directories. If this is not your problem please post a sample ls command. Thanks KenF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
