Question

----- Original Message -----
From: "robert jorgenson" <snoogans@qwest.net>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 6:02 PM
Subject: Re: 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?
>

when you did mount /dev/cdrom where did u mount it to i suspect it was
/cdrom right?

if so from / if you do cd cdrom then do ls you should hear the cdrom rev up
...

and you should also see the layout of 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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