I am relatively new here compared to some of the people on the list, but now
I can finally start giving back to the community. So here goes...
In a message dated 5/28/99 2:00:15 AM Mountain Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> 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?
>
I am assuming that what happened is that when RedHat was installed it just
mounted the first device that it found that was a CDROM type device. Does it
do this when you reboot the machine? If it does it could just be a matter of
editing your /etc/fstab file. Anyway, you could do this a couple of different
ways. First, make sure that your neither of your CDs are mounted. You can use
the 'umount' command to 'dismount' the device. Then you can just mount the
device that is your CD-ROM is on. For instance, maybe your CD-W is your
secondary master, and your CD is your secondary slave, no reference to your
website ;-), the CD-W might be /dev/hdb1 and the CD might be /dev/hdb2. To
mount the CD you could just do a mount command like 'mount -t iso9660
/dev/hdb2 /mnt/cdrom'. The other thing that you can do is to edit your
/etc/fstab file so that it automatically mounts these two devices. Although,
this might not be so useful since you will probably change what CD is in each
of these devices.
> 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 :)
>
> Thanks in advance :)
>
> Vox
What kind of mouse do you have? I'll be honest here, I'm not real sure what
is causing this. I don't blame you for not wanting to have root logged in.
You might want to rerun XF86Setup as root. I'm not sure if this matters for
this problem, but did you copy the files from /etc/skel into the user's home
directory? I really shouldn't recommend this as a solution until I know more
about how things work. I'll try to find out if that matters and let you know
later if I find out.
Noel
