after the 2nd crash in a month of mandrake 10 (by crash i mean total loss of everything, not my system shutting down), I rrformated and installed once again. This time i choose a higher security and it did not give me cd permissions, not have i ever gotten audio because of permissions even with the lower settings.
So i tryed to give myself permissions by su to root and using the usermod command. This command has failled me repeatedly with may attempts to use it.
Code:
[root@localhost etc]# usermod -g nikki -G audio,cdrom,cdwriter -l nikki
usage: usermod [-u uid [-o]] [-g group] [-G group,...]
[-d home [-m]] [-s shell] [-c comment] [-l new_name]
[-f inactive] [-e expire ] [-p passwd] [-L|-U] name
[root@localhost etc]# usermod -g nikki -G audio,cdrom,cdwriter -L|-U nikki
bash: -U: command not found
usage: usermod [-u uid [-o]] [-g group] [-G group,...]
[-d home [-m]] [-s shell] [-c comment] [-l new_name]
[-f inactive] [-e expire ] [-p passwd] [-L|-U] name
[root@localhost etc]#
could someone please tell me in plain english what I am failing to do right here please so I can burn the cd's to install a linux that does not crash about every 2 weeks?