sorry, cant help w/ the font issue, but as far as the cd-rom issues... make sure that in your /etc/fstab, you have 'user' under the options. that'll take care of not being able to mount/umount as a user acct. mount points in gentoo for IDE cd drives are '/dev/cdroms/cdrom#'
www.xcdroast.org has a good deal of information about cd-burning in linux. That's the program i've always used, and it is getting to the point it's actually a nice stable and usable program. For some reason, i've always had mixed success getting scsi emulation to work the first time w/ gentoo kernels....no idea why....sometimes i get it right the first time, and other times it takes some fiddling...but once it's working, it's very reliable. hope that helps some Brendan On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 23:42, Krikket wrote: > First, I now have my new fresh Gentoo install up and running, with many > thanks going to people here. > > I've set a KOI8R console font, so I can read nice cyrillic characters on > file-names and stuff. I've set the 8x16 font. (I had the 8x8 font set > during the initial install, until I got the gui going, so things wouldn't > scoll off the screen so quickly!) > > But now I find that just about every font in Gentoo is *slightly* too > small for me to read. Switching back from the 8x8 to 8x16 font didn't > make a whit's bit of difference, so I'm assuming gnome/kde pull their > fonts from somewhere besides rc.conf. > > If someone could point me at the file I need to change to give me slightly > larger fonts across the board, it will be extremely appreciated! > > One other regional setting problem that I'm having is at some point during > the istall I was asked if I wanted to enter a code for the country > (region) and language. Not knowing what data it wanted, other than two > two letter codes seperated by a '_', I guessed and entered 'us_us' as my > default. I guessed wrong. It probably should have been 'en_us' or > 'us_en' or some-such. Going over the documentation again, I can't seem to > find where I stumbled across this. Does anyone have any suggestions as to > where I should look? > > (Otherwise, most applications attempt to start things, produce an error, > and then go back to the default, which is what it should have been using > in the first place...) > > The final problem with the install, and then I can say that my first > Gentoo install is complete... > > CD-ROMs and CD-RW/DVD-ROM combo drives. > > Is there a how-to somewhere out there, so I can get these devices working? > My system acknowleges the CD-ROM, but won't allow a user to mount > anything. If I try to su, I get more errors, but I'm getting either > "mount point does not exist" or "can't find ... in /fstab or mtab", Part > of the problem, I'm sure, is that I'm not using the right mount-point, but > I don't know what I should be doing here... Therefore the howto request. > > Yes, I did check the site and forums for these questions, and while I'm > not surprised that I didn't find answers to the first set of questions, I > am a but surprised to find bupkis on the CD/DVD question... > > So, any suggestions, pointers, reccomendations, etc, are greatly > appreciated! > > Thanks in advance, > > Krikket > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Brendan Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
