On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 10:20:11PM -0500, Bryan K. Walton wrote: > Hi, > Please forgive me for asking such an embarassing question: I have <nothing embarrassing...> > installed Debian 2.1 on my laptop and have struggled to correctly > configure X. So I am now preparing to install XFree86 3.3.5 which I have > been told will fix my problem. I have all of the XFree86 3.3.5 files > burned onto a CD-ROM. I need to copy the files from the CD-ROM to a temp > directory on my /usr partition. Can someone please tell me exactly > what I need to type in order to do this? How do I get into the > CDROM directory and how do I make Debian copy everything from that > CDROM to /usr/temp (a subdirectory I created for this purpose)? Bad... You shouldn't create directories willy nilly except in user directories like /home, or perhaps in /usr/local. For future reference, you might look at http://www.pathname.com/fhs .
Am wondering were you got the binaries from? Are they debs (*.deb) or are they tarballs (*.tar.gz, or *.tgz, or just *.tar)? Anyway, you need to "mount" the cdrom. Try: your_prompt$ mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /cdrom For this to work: 1) the empty directory /cdrom must exist (you can use /mnt instead -- it should exist). So mkdir /cdrom if it doesn't exist. 2) /dev/cdrom should be a symlink to the real device name (e.g. /dev/hdc). Can't help you with this without knowing whether you have IDE or SCSI and how those are hooked up. Finally, if it worked. your_prompt$ cp /cdrom/<your files> /tmp Don't forgot to "umount /cdrom" when you're done. If you have the man-db installed, you can read up on these commands with man <command name>. -- +----------------------------------------------------+ | Eric G. Miller egm2@jps.net | | GnuPG public key: http://www.jps.net/egm2/gpg.asc | +----------------------------------------------------+
