Re: Having so much fun........

[Wesley Leonard <marshall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

1. I believe you cannot mount install floppies--they're special ramdisk
images of some sort...  Try putting in a regular blank floppy of any type.
man mount for more info

2.

>     Second problem. I cannot unmount the cd drive after mounting. The
> error message reads:
>
> umount: /dev/hdb is not in fstab (and you are not in root)
>
> Do I need to mount/unmount every time I switch a cd/floppy or can I pop
> them out after the drive stops?

Insert CD, mount it.  Use it.  Unmount it.  Insert new CD, etc...
Filesystems must be mounted before use and unmounted before being removed
(for a RO filesystem like a CD it's not an issue but for floppies and hard
disks it is important).

3. control-panel

>     Third problem. I cannot find the control panel! Ouch. Kind of hard
> to do anything. I'm starting out reading Linux Red Hat for Dummies along
> with the Red Hat Manual. Problem is the default for them is GNOME and
> what I have is KDE. I will be switching but to XFCE at some point. So
> where the manuals are telling me to find it is wrong.

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Wesley Leonard
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