Hello, James Gregory, Thankyou for the information that you have provided me so far, much appreciated.
I have attached the output file from the command "lspcidrake". Your feedback would be appreciated. I tried using the command "cd/mnt/cdrom/setup" without success. Can you make any suggestions to run the cdrom from root? Thanks. Regards, David. ======= At 2002-11-25, 05:17:00 you wrote: ======= >On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 01:47:19PM +1100, David wrote: >> I have 3 questions which I hope someone can assist me with?: >> >> 1. How do I install a program from a download or CD? > >Ok, the short answer is that it depends what you're installing. > >Third party software (like staroffice, at least the last time I played with >it) tend to have their own installer or rpm files. In the former case you >need to run the installer. So, something like: > >cd /mnt/cdrom >../setup > >(assuming you're using supermount... which may cause other problems, but let >us know if there are issues with mounted disks). doing "cd /mnt/cdrom" and then >running ls will show you what programs you can run on the disk. Mandrake >will colour the files which are flagged as executables (programs - things you >can run) green. The installer (if there is one) will be one of these files. > >Alternatively if they have an rpm file, then you use the rpm command to install >it. Basic process is this: > >cd /mnt/cdrom >rpm -ivh rpmfile.rpm > >and of course substitute the name of the rpm file. RPM files are also coloured >IIRC. Red perhaps. Anyway, they'll have an rpm extension so they're easy enough >to find. > >There is another path, which I always forget about because I never use it. >If you use KDE (I don't know about GNOME. It probably does this too. Jeff?), >you can click around until you find the rpm on your cd-rom drive (there will >be an icon for it on your desktop), then right click on it - one of the options >there will let you install the rpm. I kinda didn't believe it when I saw that >but I tried it and it does indeed work. It will prompt for the superuser >password. > >Now, the more general question - how do you install stuff. If it's source code >you follow the instructions in the tarball. They will probably say to untar the >source somewhere and run these commands: > >../configure >make >make install > >If you want to install something from Mandrake's RPMs, the PLF RPMs, or a >number of other places which support "urpmi", you can run "urpmi programname" >as root and it will download and install it for you, or you can run mandrake >control center, which should be in menus everywhere (or mcc from console - >I discovered the other day that you can also use if from a console), go to >software management, and there is a thing there for searching stuff it knows >how to install and installing it. > >I can't remember the link for info on cooker (which is experimental mandrake >stuff). The default install will set it up so it knows about all of your >installation CDs and will prompt for them if it needs them to install >something. Also check out > >http://plf.zarb.org > >(which I remember only because it has "zarb" as its domain name. I think that's >cool) > >they have 1337 l1nuz w4r3z. > >And, attend the slug meeting this month where I intend to elucidate upon all >of this in about 5 minutes. It will be EXTREME. > >> >> I know this seems soooo simple, but I am very confused atm. For >> example: >> I am attempting to install SatOffice 5.? from CD. But don't know how to >> get it going so it installs. Another example: trying to download a file >> and install it? How do I? > >Have you figured out downloading? See above for installation, post if you want >help downloading stuff. > >> 2. My second question is: I have a USB flash drive. How do I get it to >> be >> read in Linux? Do I mount it, and how? > >this seems to have been answered already, but I thought I'd just say that >the last time I played with usb storage devices on mandrake I just plugged it >in and mounted it and it worked straight off. I couldn't get it to play nice >with supermount and mount itself automatically though. > >> >> 3. I installed Linux onto a Toshiba Satellite 1400. It went well (dual >> partition and all that stuff) but I cant seem to get the modem to go. >> Have tried various laptop-u >> linux websites but are very confused. Is there someone that can guide >> me >> through the process (if there is one? ) that is non Linux speak. All >> the >> information I got was baffling! > >hmmm. Depends on the modem. I don't know about toshiba notebooks because I >only have a compaq one. Run "lspcidrake" as root and send us the output - we >can probably help more then. Alternatively I think mandrake control center >has a clicky hardware installing thing. Harddrake or something. It used to >ship with a thing called "kudzu" as well which wasn't too bad (in moderation). >If it's simple, harddrake will probably know how to do it. > >HTH, > >James. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Best regards. dac692 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2002-11-25
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