Linux questions !

Hey guys, can you please help me on these:


1) How to mount CD-ROM and A-drive ?

2) How to setup your modem and internet connection ?


I am talking about environement Gnomes.

 

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What distro are you using and how many harddrives do you have?


usually something like "mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom" works. if /mnt/cdrom doesnt already exist youll have to create it before attempting to mount the drive. To unmount the drive "umount /mnt/cdrom" make sure your not in a directory under /mnt/cdrom when you do that or it wont work.

Floppy:
to mount "mount /devfd0 /mnt/floppy"
same unmount directions except use /mnt/floppy


As far as your internet connection if it wasnt set up during the install you can always edit the scripts involved, do you have kppp? Do "which kppp" to find out.

 

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The Distro would decide the modem config, usually found in /etc/ but that's totally dependent on install and Distro.

For instance Debian uses PPP for the modem. and has a couple of different dialing techniques.

Main problem is though if your ISP doesn't allow UNIX dialups.

 

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Since you are using the gnome desktop, you can actually mount the floppy by right clicking on the desktop and choose disk, then you should see floppy. Sometimes, the mount can could be done automatically depending on your distro. I usually like to use the command line and use the mount command. If you ever need any help on any command, you can always type man <command>.
When you're done reading, just press 'q'.

 

the Filesystem in Linux or generally UNIX is a tree type of structure.so we find that just as we have to open the file we have to use,anonymously we have to mount filesystem to use it.





for mounting in LINUX
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mount /MNT/CDROM

for umounting:
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umount /mnt/cdrom