On Mon, 24 May 1999, Vox wrote:
>
> Kwira all :)
>
> I have a couple of questions (as usual...one of this days I'll have
> answers :)...first one:
>
> When you install RH6 it makes a link (I don't know if it's a soft or hard
> link...how do I find out?) on /dev/cdrom to whatever it thinks is your
> cdrom. The thing is...I have 2 CDs...a CD-writer and a CD--ROM, and the
> link got fixed to my CD-Writer....and I want it to point to my cd-rom...how
> do I change the link?
>
As root:
# rm /dev/cdrom
# ln -s /dev/hdX /dev/cdrom
Replace the X with the actual device file that your CD-ROM is. Here's a
table to help (assuming an IDE system):
IDE system device - Linux filesystem device
===========================================
Primary Master = /dev/hda
Primary Slave = /dev/hdb
Secondary Master = /dev/hdc
Secondary Slave = /dev/hdd
> Second question:
>
> Whenever I start Linux (I'm dualbooting till my modem gets here :) and I
> start X, the mouse doesn't move....if I log in as root and do gpm -t ms -R
> and then kill gpm (it doesn't work if I don't kill it), then log in to
> another console (without logging root off) as normal user and startx the
> mouse works...but if I log off the root one, the mouse dies again, no
> matter if I am already in X or not....what the (*&^(^ is
> happening? And...how do I fix it? I don't like to have root loged in....I
> really don't want to get distracted and mess something up :)
>
Hm. Don't know exactly about this one... I've never experienced that
problem.
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Michael B. Trausch
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Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the
courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of
the people I had to kill because they pissed me off - Anon.
