Ok, there is a directory under root called media, but when there is no CD mounted the directory is empty. If I put a CD in the drive it gets automounted and I can look at the contents under /media/CDROM Kyle ________________________________ From: geda-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Stuart Brorson Sent: Sat 9/23/2006 1:36 PM To: gEDA user mailing list Subject: RE: gEDA-user: CD driver permissions so GEDA can install Do this: cd / ls Then look for a directory called /MEDIA or /media or something like that. Somewhere attached to your root directory is a directory onto which you are supposed to mount dismountable media, like floppies and CDs. It is typically named /media or /MEDIA or something like that. (John's suggest to look for /mnt refers to another common mount point.) When you locate the the /media (or whatever) directory, cd into it and do ls. You should see the mount point for your CD ROM. Then mount the CD there and try the installer, Stuart On Sat, 23 Sep 2006, Schulmeyer, K wrote: > when I look in my /mnt directory there is nothing in there. > > Kyle > > ________________________________ > > From: geda-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of John Luciani > Sent: Sat 9/23/2006 1:27 PM > To: gEDA user mailing list > Subject: Re: gEDA-user: CD driver permissions so GEDA can install > > > > On 9/23/06, Schulmeyer, K <k.schulmeyer@xxxxxxx> wrote: >> Ok, did what you said and when I try the mount command I get >> "mount: mount point /media/cdrom does not exist" >> > > Check your filesystem for a directory called /mnt/cd or /mnt/cdrom etc. > and mount there instead. > > (* jcl *) > > -- > http://www.luciani.org <http://www.luciani.org/> <http://www.luciani.org/> > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > geda-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user > > > _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list geda-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
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