Re: Several Beginner Questions

2002-02-21 Thread Kent West
Oliver Elphick wrote: On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 15:04, westk wrote How do I access my CD-ROM drive? (It is the slave on the 2nd IDE). mount /dev/hdc /mnt If it's the slave it is /dev/hdd; /dev/hdc is the master. Oops. Thanks for the catch . . . Kent

Re: Several Beginner Questions

2002-02-21 Thread Thomas Shemanske
John Shepherd wrote: Hello Again, Last night was nearly fruitless. Well, I shouldn't say that; at least I have some specific questions now. My current situation is that I have installed debian from floppy disks and can boot. I have created a regular user and root. I'm learning th

RE: Several Beginner Questions

2002-02-21 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 15:04, westk wrote > >How do I access my CD-ROM drive? (It is the slave on > >the 2nd IDE). > > mount /dev/hdc /mnt If it's the slave it is /dev/hdd; /dev/hdc is the master. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight

RE: Several Beginner Questions

2002-02-21 Thread westk
>= Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] = >How do I access /dev/fd0? Create a new directory, or use an existing one. You'll probably have /mnt already. Using that directory, the command would be: mount /dev/fd0 /mnt as root. Then "ls /mnt" to list the files on the floppy. When you're