no doubt this is an easy question, but here it is anyway:

what do I type from the cl to see what cd drives are mounted and how do I mount my 52x drive. My burner already shows up in GnomeToaster Beta5, but not the 52x drive.

and, how do I discern if vpn is installed on my workstation.

thanks, in advance,

David

To see what is mounted, just use the mount command without any options.

As root, you need to know what place your CD has on the IDE controller...
Primary Master = hda
Primary Slave = hdb
Secondary Master = hdc
Secondary Slave = hdd

You then use that in...
mount -t auto /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom

Of course, you need to use the correct /dev/hdX , and a valid mount point. /mnt/cdrom is pretty standard.

Once you get that to work, you can create a link in /dev between hdX and cdrom, so that you can use /dev/cdrom .

You can also then insert a line in /etc/fstab to allow you to mount as a regular user, with a simple mount /dev/cdrom ... As for the VPN, I'm not too sure. If it's installed from an RPM, you can run rpm -qa | grep vpn . You might also try the same command with capital VPN, just in case. I don't know what package it would be in, though.

thanks very much.......I will let you know how these suggestions work....

David

I am a little confused:

[root@localhost root]# mount
/dev/hdb3 on / type ext3 (rw)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
usbdevfs on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw)
/dev/hdb1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/hdb6 on /home type ext3 (rw)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
/dev/hdb7 on /tmp type ext3 (rw)
/dev/hdb2 on /usr type ext3 (rw)
/dev/hdb9 on /usr/local type ext3 (rw)
/dev/hdb5 on /var type ext3 (rw)
[root@localhost root]#

there is no hda, b, c, or d....

David

Sure there is... /dev/hdb1 on /boot type ext3 (rw)

Your /boot is mounted on /dev/hdb1 as fstype EXT3. Your system is installed on a hard-drive on the primary/slave IDE channel. The # after the /dev/hdb is the partition on the drive.

It doesn't show a listing for your burner because it wasn't currently mounted. CD drives don't have partitions, so they don't have a #. Give us a print out of your /etc/fstab , and we'll help determine where your CD drives are. It might show up as /dev/cdrom , so then you would need to ls -l /dev/cdrom to see to which device it's linked.