2. Sound: Run sndconfig at the prompt. Select your sound card. If that
doesn't work, try some of the other choices. I have an ALS and got the
Soundblaster to work for it.
3. To mount the cdrom, you need to tell it to mount it somewhere. Usually,
people mount it like this:
mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
This will tell it to mount the cdrom into the /mnt/cdrom directory. To
access it, you will need to go to that directory. cd /mnt/cdrom. Then you
can look at it with dir command. If you want to change CDs, you need to
unmount it. Type unmount /mnt/cdrom. Above, the -t is type. Good luck.
Don't know the answer to the other problems.
Bret Craw
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Toby Sheets [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, August 12, 1999 8:08 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [newbie] 4 persistent problems
>
> Ok, in the last 2 days I've reinstalled about 4 times to try and sort
> out various bugs. Please be patient with me (this *is* a newbie group
> after all). Here are my problems:
>
> 1) SCSI.
> My system is using Adaptec 152x SCSI Host Adapter. When I do the
> install and try to have Linux probe the card it says it can't find one
> on my system. If I try to do the install manually it asks me for a
> module. What goes here so that I can try a manual install?
>
> 2) Sound.
> Install never asks about sound cards and so far I have no audio.
> Where/how do I configure audio??
>
> 3) Hard Drive.
> I just installed a brand new 17.6 Gig hard drive to run Linux on. It
> is
> setup as my primary slave. When I partitioned it with Disk Druid I set
> up 1.5 Gig for my "/" partition, 128 MB for my swap, and 400MB for
> "/home". Now the rest of that drive should, in theory (I think) show up
> as another drive in Windows. However, in Windows there is no sign of the
> remaining 14+ GB of hard drive space. Where did it go? Will I be able to
> save files on it and if so what format?
>
> 4) CD-Rom.
> It must have found it during the install because it had no problems
> loading and installing the OS. But if I try to access my documentation
> CD's via Linux there are no drives mounted. How do I mount them?
>
> I wanted to add, if there are any Mandrake employees reading, that the
> install documentation I received with the Deluxe Linux is pretty
> anemic. The install did not happen in the same order as it appeared in
> the install guide and some options which I ended up needing were not
> even covered.
>
> The user guide is about as helpful. It almost seems to assume some prior
> knowledge of working with in the Linux environment. Thank God Mandrake
> chose to include 3 other books on CD-Rom. Unfortunately, the user guide
> is so useless I can't get my CDRom to mount so I have to read the
> contents in Windows, memorize, then go to Linux and try what I read.
> I've been sitting at my computer for close to 8 hours today and I'm
> still right where I started.
