On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 11:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I'm a Linux newbie having recently installed Red-Hat 7.2. I have a couple of > CD-ROM related questions: > > - How do I load my CD-ROM with execute permissions? (For Eg: How do I make > linux automatically start installing a new software application like star > office when I load the installation CD ?) If you're using Gnome, go to the Control Center, Preferences, Peripherals, then CD Properties... you should see an option for "Automatically start auto-run program on newly mounted CD". If something's still not right, check the device permissions as root. This might be a good thing to get help from a Thursday clinic for if you are not familiar with root-user issues, chmod, and /dev. ;-))
> > - Also, how is the CD-ROM recognized in the Linux filesystem? Most IDE drives will in fact have a /dev/hdX device setting, but are then symlinked... burners need to use the ide-scsi module, so they are often addressed as /dev/sXX; in both cases X varies. BUT: It's usually auto-mounted at /mnt/cdrom. Might be /mnt/cdrom1 or similar... a default redhat install should mount it there by default iirc. If you type "cat /etc/fstab" you should see that one of the lines says something like this: /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0 That's wrapped, was all on one line -- and shows that /dev/cdrom is in fact the one. I think the default for both Gnome and KDE is for the filemanager to pop up a cdrom window and also desktop icon when a new disc is inserted... (ie, they automount by default). If this is not happening for you, check 'dmesg' (or type "dmesg|less" to scroll and view) to make sure that the device is getting recognized (probably shows as hdc, hde, or some other hdX letter depending where it is on your IDE. If it is a SCSI drive then of course a different story applies. You should have to worry about what the X in hdX is, just that the drive is indeed recognized in those system boot messages. > > Thanks for your help, > > Kaushik You're quite welcome; I hope this does in fact help. Best of luck with the adventures! ben -- -- Ben Barrett SysAdmin who does *not* hate RedHat Phone: 541.484.9235 Fax: 541.484.9193 _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
