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Article #47687Re: Newbie problem with startx
From: John van der Veur
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 00:00
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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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 102983,e028fad8f36542ab X-Google-Attributes: gid102983,public From: jv@melbpc.org.au (John van der Veur) Subject: Re: Newbie problem with startx Date: 1999/01/06 Message-ID: <3692e24c.1751036@news.melbpc.org.au> X-Deja-AN: 429282414 References: <36919530.6008548@news.melbpc.org.au> <3691C155.B96B37E2@bigpond.com> <76tkap$ps2$1@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca> Organization: j%nki~w�RJ3M-26XPLZ8L-BFGD44CT-1EA6BC82 Newsgroups: aus.computers.linux