According to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: While burning my CPU.
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> 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.
In my opinion CD's should never be mounted by the boot process, unless you
know what you are doing.
CD as far as i know, are /dev/hda /dev/hdb not /dev/hda1 etc. You cant split
a CD into two phyiscal 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
He mentioned what sort of mouse he has in the command gpm -t, -t = type of
mouse.
> 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.
The problem has a relationship to /dev/gpmdata and the -R option he is using
i belive.
>
> Noel
>
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Regards Richard.
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