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Re: Newbie problem with startx

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From: John van der Veur
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 00:00
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Hi Bill,

>>> "Tried  /root/XF86config
>>>         /etc/XF86config
>>>         /usr/X11R6/lib/X11........
>>>         /usr/X11R6/lib/....etc, etc"
>
>It is trying to find the file, /etc/XF86config, while the correct name
>is /etc/X11/XF86Config on a redhat system. Strange (unless you typed the
>above wrongly)

Typing error...

>>> I have also had a problem accessing the cdrom.  The CD has been
>>> mounted but when I go to the /mnt/cdrom directory I stall can't access
>>> the CD despite the "cdrom" being listed in the /mnt directory.
>
>How do you know it has been mounted? Is it in your /etc/fstab file?
>If so issue
>mount /mnt/cdrom
>as root (or go into /etc/fstab and place a user option on the line
>eg
>......  iso9660  noauto,ro,user    0 0

TThe command I used to mount to cdrom was:

mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

This was the suggested command in the APC Pocketbook - how does that
differ from your suggested command ?

Thanks for you help,

Cheers,

John
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