A Question to All You Linux Folks!

p3 · - Joined: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 615

OK, here's the problem.

I just installed Mandriva Linux, knowing that it didn't come with my drivers preintalled. So I installed it, leaving the default choices for the graphics card. Surely enough, X is all messed up. I booted in failsafe and logged into root. Here's the problem.

Part of the tutorial I'm following requires me to get a driver. So I burned it onto a CD, and mounted it into Virtual PC. Whenever I type:

MonkeyNation · - Joined: 05 Feb 2005 Posts: 921 Location: Cardiff

Anonymoose · - Joined: 09 Sep 2003 Posts: 2192

You're mounting the cd image in Virtual PC. All that means is that the CD image is 'in' the virtual CD drive, which is available to the guest OS. It does not mean the guest OS will automagically mount it for you.

First, you need to check whether the mount point (the folder under which the contents of your CD will be available) exists.

cd /mnt/
ls cd*

If cdrom doesn't already exist,

mkdir cdrom

Next, you need to mount the cdrom under that folder. Try

mount -t auto /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

If that fails, your cdrom drive probably isn't called cdrom under /dev/

http://linux.about.com/od/linux101/l/blnewbie4_2_2.htm will save me typing the rest of a million already existing howtos...
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