Well first of all there should be an icon on your desktop marked 'Documentation' click on it and you will see the Mandrake Installation Guide, and the Mandrake Reference Manual. This is an excellent place to start learning about your new system.
Also take a walk over to Mandrake Campus you can find it by right clicking anywhere in your desktop and Selecting 'Bookmarks>Mandrake Soft>Mandrake Campus' here you can take an online course in how to use Linux. There you will learn that in Linux everything is a file. So your CD drive itself is a file, and that file has to be 'mounted' before it can be read. To 'mount' a CD all you have to do is click on the CD icon on your desktop. This should have the action of mounting the CD and will open up a konqueror window at the cd mount point which should be /mnt/cdrom. Before the CD can be removed it must be 'unmounted'. to do this first any application using the CD must be terminated (i.e. close your konqueror window if it is pointing at the CD drive), and then right click on the CD icon on your desktop and select 'unmount' or 'eject'. If your CD icon does not work then let us know and we will talk you through how to make it work. BTW: Audio CD's do not need to be mounted. They do not contain a file system. All you need to play an audio CD is to start the CD player application and press the Play button. As you learn linux you will discover that that are always multiple ways of doing the same thing. So for example you can mount/unmount CDs using console commands, or by an application calle kwikdisk. derek On Sunday 30 December 2001 20:18, you wrote: > Hello, > > I am using ver 8.1 and have horrible problems to ever find any file on my > discs. Especially my CD/DVD-Rom seems to just not be there. I am new to > Linux and , i know, used to Windows. I am wondering if there is a good > introduction to the way the Linux filesystem (i.e. Konqueror) works for > Windows-users? Surely there are loads more (newbie) people like me > wondering where their CD-rom has dissapeared to. > > thanks .i.a, > > Tim Zijlstra
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