Question

how would i get that off the cdrom? i know mount /dev/cdrom will mount it but how do i actually access the cdrom?

Nancy Sollars wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "robert jorgenson" <snoogans@qwest.net>
> To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 2:10 PM
> Subject: Re: Question
>
> > well as of now i dont know how to install xfree because i cant get yast or
> yast2 to work(they will open but wont install stuff, yast2
> > does some wierd stuff to, it will die and the command prompt will be
> written over the yast2 program interface one right after the other)
> > for some reason and i have a P1 133 mhz processor
>
> okies for 1 i would not build xfree on that box ( its gunna take ages and i
> mean ages a day at least )
>
> yast will install stuff you must have the cd in the drawer then select from
> the menu installation you can then add / remove packages.
>
> or you may want to find the RPMS on the cd's and just use the rpm -i
> xfree.rpm rpm where xfree.rpm is the X package..
>
> I dont use suse so i dont know what they are calling their rpms these days
> ...
>
> >
> > Nancy Sollars wrote:
> >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "robert jorgenson" <snoogans@qwest.net>
> > > To: "PLUG" <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 11:55 AM
> > > Subject: Question
> > >
> > > > WoW this is gonna sound dumb but...i am completely new to linux and i
> > > > was wondering if there was a website i could go to that has a list of
> > > > like basic commands and what you can do with them. Again i know this
> > > > sounds dumb but i have a computer and i cant do anything with it as of
> > > > yet because i cant get X up :( i think my distro cd's are bad...so i
> > >
> > > What happends when u install Xfree and type startx from the command
> line?
> > > or does it fail cause you got it set to run level 5 GUI startup?
> > >
> > > before you embark on building X what speed processor do u have?
> > >
> > > > wanna connect my box to the internet and download it from an ftp site
> > > > and build it myself. But i dont know how to do that yet :( so any help
> > > > would be great!
> > > >
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