The CDROM, if I remember correctly, would be either /mnt/cdrom or /dev/cdrom At 05:55 PM 10/3/2002 -0400, you wrote: >Hi there. Ok in terms of mounting a filesystem, you do mount devicename >/mnt. /mnt is your mount point in this case. In order to determine what >device node your cdrom is mapped to, you can do the following: dmesg > >output. Include the > sign for this is a redirection operator! The above >command will redirect all the kernel start-up messages to the file output >which you can view with the command: pico output. Then press ctrl+x to >exit. In terms of telnetting/ssh to other machines, have you tried the ip >address instead of the hostname? I.e., instead of public.library.com, try >24.62.33.1? The above is hypothetical. Do you know what dns servers your >isp uses? Once ou find out, you need to enter these values in >/etc/resolv.conf in the form nameserver serverip, where serverip is the ip >address of the server. Each server has its own line with nameserver >preceding it. Good luck. If you have any more questions, you can e-mail me >at igueths at attbi.com > >microsoft dialogue > This company has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down. > If the problem persists, delete winblows and install linux > close button > >On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Anna Schneider wrote: > > > > > Anna Schneider back again. See I try to work on my system, hit problems > > almost immediately and then don't do anything for two months. Such is my > > relationship with computers. Now, let's see if I can make any sense. > > > > First, I did get a couple of tutorial, I think they are tutorial, Red Hat > > CD's with my system, but I don't know how to access them. I have to do > > something with mount don't I, but I do I know what I'm mounting, and how > > do I know which device is designated as what, and once I get the CD > > writer/reader mounted, how do I read the information it has? > > > > second, I'm still having modem problems. I can dial in with ppp okay, but > > then I can't seem do telnet or ssh, and I don't know where their config > > files are, or their how-to files. I means I've skimmed the info pages on > > them but it's all jibberish to me. When I try ssh, I get something about > > host name resolution failure, and telnet just can't find the host. Now, > > from my non-ppp account on Drizzle, I often telnet to the catalog ofr the > > Washington Talking Book and Braille Library, and that works fine, but when > > I even tried doing that on my Linux machine, I couldn't. It couldn't find > > it or something, but I'm wondering if it's actually a problem on my end. > > > > This doesn't make any sense does it. I can't do anything. Every time I > > try I go backwards. I don't understand the the info pages because they > > are so terminology ladend. I can't find help on the things I need because > > I don't know where to look. Oh, and I can only access my moem as root, not > > as anther user and I can find where to change that because I don't know > > what to look for. > > > > Can anyone sort through this and give me pointers. This is starting to > > throw my life into chaos. > > > > Thanks much. > > > > Anna > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
