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but i'm not 100% on that, have a look in nautilus to see if it's appeared there, it may already be mounted, also check out your fstab file "/etc/fstab"
Heres the problem that I am having, my gtk has totally crashed, and I can only access via failsafe terminal.
When I boot up the machine, it will not pick up the cdrom, or even run it.
I have an internal cdrom/dvd player, and I also have a external cd/dvd writer.
I was hoping to do a re-install from one of the two, during the boot up process.
I have tried re-installing gnome desktop, and also gtk, but it will not find the packages.
I am able to open Nautilus from the terminal as well.
you could add it to fstab but you'd need to use a terminal text editor, other than that i'm not sure how you'd recover from here other than using the all in one boot floppy http://www.box.net/index.php?rm=box_...ame=nruahd0s8e
this has a feature that allows you to boot cd's from a floppy, though i've not had a remarkable amount of success with it, the best way to go about it would be to extract an ISO to a HDD partition and use grub to substitute isolinux or syslinux, i'm helping someone else with this currently if you wan't to follow the progress http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...om-hdd-620228/
Last edited by Person_1873; 02-11-2008 at 03:49 AM.
Is your BIOS set to boot from CD first? If it is, and you can't boot from your CD, then you have a corrupt CD or a hardware failure. FWIW, CDs are usually auto-mounted.
On any newer distro that uses udev, you'll find a group of subdirectories in /dev/disk that provide links to each specific block device on your system, by device id, device label, device path, and uuid.
You can use any of these as your mount device instead of the standard /dev/hd*, or whatever. They can be useful when you want to set up mount commands for specific devices.
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