Here's a very quick exercise for you to do. More information concerning the all-important CD-ROM, will follow very soon.
1. Log-on as root.
2. Enter > startx
3. Insert a CD-ROM into drive.
4. To mount your CD-ROM drive i.e. make it accessible - enter the following at the command-line (making sure you select the correct IDE controller (see key below)):
mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom Key : hda --> Primary Master (Usually the hard-drive.) hdb --> Primary Slave (Usually the CD-ROM drive.) hdc --> Secondary Master hdd --> Secondary Slave
5. Enter > cd /mnt/cdrom
6. Enter > ls to list the contents of '/mnt/cdrom'.
Laurence Hunter
thebits@thebits.co.uk