Switching sides.

Post by **Dapper Dan** » Thu Jan 22, 2004 7:18 pm

You've installed Morphix to your HD??!! And you didn't run into problems??? If so, you're a computer whiz Lou!! What about your Windows partition, everything intact there? or did you install Morphix to another box?

Post by **Dapper Dan** » Thu Jan 22, 2004 7:20 pm

Lou-saydus wrote:
Dapper Dan wrote:CAUTION: Do not install the HD without consutation!
uhhhh......??

consuLtation, which obiously you don't need...

Lou-saydus · Post by **Lou-saydus** » Thu Jan 22, 2004 7:21 pm

It installed fine, my windows still works and i can get to both of them .. them being winows and linux. Do you know how to get to ur cd rom drive in morphix?

Post by **Dapper Dan** » Fri Jan 23, 2004 12:10 am

Open a terminal and type:

eject /mnt/cdrom [enter]

and it should pop open. Put a cd in, and type:

mount /mnt/cdrom [enter]

..and your cdrom should get "mounted." You can then find /mnt in nautilus, open it, then open cdrom, and look at what's on the cd. Or, at the terminal type:

cd /mnt/cdrom [enter]

then:

ls [enter]

and you will see whats on the cd from the command line. If there are mp3's on there, and one of the files is for example, "cutone.mp3, type:

xmms cutone,mp3 [enter]

and Xmms will come up and you can run it.

cd means "change directory"
ls = list, or show what's in the directory.

mount of course, means to mount that particular file system.

Enjoy..

Lou-saydus · Post by **Lou-saydus** » Fri Jan 23, 2004 1:34 am

hmm..this happens when i try to right click on the backround
and click "disks>CDROM

"Nautilus was unable to mount the selected volume"

buttons......

Details

OK

i click details ....

"mount:mount point /mnt/auto/cdrom does not ecist"

buttons....

:Disabled: Details

OK

......

this happens when i try....

"eject /mnt/cdrom" [enter]

"bash: Eject: command not found"

.......

this happens when i try.....

"mount /mnt/cdrom" [enter]

"mount: can't find /mnt/cdrom in /ect/fstab or /ect/mtab"

.........

this happens when i try.....

"cd /mnt/cdrom" [enter]

"bash: dc: /mnt/cdrom: No such file or directory"

....

and thats it... so its still not working , and i have no idea why not..

btw i have 2 Cd-rom drives.

Post by **Dapper Dan** » Fri Jan 23, 2004 2:19 am

btw i have 2 Cd-rom drives.

Aha! 2 eh..? Ok. Try all this again except substituting cdrom1 instead of cdrom and tell me what you get. In the meantime, I'll check with my wife's laptop as it also uses Morphix-Gnome 4.1..

Lou-saydus · Post by **Lou-saydus** » Fri Jan 23, 2004 2:23 am

sweet thanks

Lou-saydus · Post by **Lou-saydus** » Fri Jan 23, 2004 2:30 am

hmm still not working...
oh ya and do u know how to make the bar on the bottem come back if u "minimze" it, well i mean if you click the button on the far far left.

Post by **Dapper Dan** » Fri Jan 23, 2004 4:41 am

I'll try to get to the disappearing bottom bar later, first:

I forgot that Morphix mounts cdrom at / rather than /mnt soooo, do this instead....

Open a terminal and type:

su [enter]

This makes you 'super user' You'll notice the $ sign has turned into a # sign. You are now the god of your computer and can do anything you want without warnings! This is not always good as you can accidently delete something and there are no safety nets to prevent it! Super user is good to do some things, but you'll want to do most things as a regular user or $.

Anyway...

as root type:

umount /cdrom [enter]

and it should pop open. (make sure you type umount and not unmount!) Put a cd in, and type:

mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom [enter]

..and your cdrom should get "mounted." You can then find /cdrom in nautilus, open it, and look at what's on the cd. Or, at the terminal type:

cd /cdrom [enter]

then:

ls [enter]

and you will see whats on the cd from the command line. If there are mp3's on there, and one of the files is for example, "cutone.mp3, type:

xmms cutone,mp3 [enter]

and Xmms will come up and you can run it.

cd means "change directory"
ls = list, or show what's in the directory.
mount of course, means to mount that particular file system.
umount = unmount the cd (actually the file system on the cd.)

For your other cdrom, do everything exactly the same except put a "1" after cdrom.

mount /dev/cdrom1 /cdrom1

etc...

Lou-saydus · Post by **Lou-saydus** » Fri Jan 23, 2004 5:17 am

i woulde do that if it would let me put in the password..

ok here go's

i typed su in the terminal

then it asks me 4 a pass I know what the pass is but it wont let me type anything in there.

Lou-saydus · Post by **Lou-saydus** » Fri Jan 23, 2004 5:19 am

nm that last post i got it.. *Feels stuiped*

Lou-saydus · Post by **Lou-saydus** » Fri Jan 23, 2004 5:24 am

i get this error

mount: can't find /dev/cdrom/cdrom1 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

when i type this

mount /dev/cdrom/cdrom
or this
mount /dev/cdrom/cdrom1

Post by **Dapper Dan** » Fri Jan 23, 2004 5:28 am

I'm on now so I can help you..

It's

mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom [enter]

with a space between /dev/cdrom and /cdrom

Lou-saydus · Post by **Lou-saydus** » Fri Jan 23, 2004 5:32 am

cool thanks
im gunna try that real quick

Post by **Dapper Dan** » Fri Jan 23, 2004 5:33 am

Here's a really good link that explains all you need to know about mounting and umounting cd rom devices. I know it's different than Windows but it really makes more sense once you get used to it..

http://www.linuxfocus.org/English/Septe ... le106.html