since installing core3 i no longer have access to my CD drivethrough anything but root, and i cant seem to change my user permissions through root

and i cant get it to update at all

Did you happen to install it with Selinux in enforcing mode? You might need to back that off.

I did several FC3 installs today and the CD's worked, at least. The Selinux policy they shipped looked a bit draconian to me so I told it to warn rather than enforce.

Anything in var/log/security or messages?

SElinux sounds familiar.. so maybe that got in there. but i dont know for sure because i just did the automated update from FC2 (mainly in hopes that i could burn in my user account)

to be honest i dont know much technically about linux because i dont use it for much more than basic computer uses. all i know is that since i did the kernal upgrade in fc2 ive had problems with my CDR and now in FC3 i cant even rip, and the updates dont work, period. ive tried going in through yum and through the graphical update software

in yum i cant import the (gpg) keys
in the graphical software it gives me a "cannot be found error"

and to add to my frustration firefox crashes all the time.

i dont know how else to say this stuff. im sorry if im not helpful.

Credit given to "benjithegreat98"

You can change this in the /etc/selinux/config
To SELINUX=disabled and SELINUXTYPE=targeted .

[root@gmbackupsvr selinux]# cat config
# This file controls the state of SELinux on the system.
# SELINUX= can take one of these three values:
# enforcing - SELinux security policy is enforced.
# permissive - SELinux prints warnings instead of enforcing.
# disabled - SELinux is fully disabled.
SELINUX=disabled
# SELINUXTYPE= type of policy in use. Possible values are:
# targeted - Only targeted network daemons are protected.
# strict - Full SELinux protection.
SELINUXTYPE=targeted

ok so i did the selinux thing.. thanks. but still no CD

what i get is this error:

"dev/hdc: cannot read superblock"

I get the exact same error
"dev/hdc: cannot read superblock"

If its not a data disc, FDC3 wont recognize it.

ok so i tried something thats on a CDR (and something i ripped last week using FC2) and it says cannot initalize

but then if you wait a little bit it goes back to the superblock error

still no updates every time i try i get an error 404

core 3 is starting to make me really mad

How much memory do you have in this box, When I went to fedora 2 I was using 128m of memory and this worked fine. When I went to FC3 I noticed that the system hung up alot. I added another stick of 128m and now the updating process works fine.

close to 300 megs.

its not that it DOESNT work. its that its not getting into the server. it'll get to the downloading part of the process, and i get an error #404

Post the output of your fstab.

sorry im a bit of a idiot. at least when it comes to linux terms
fstab?

again i apologize for my slowness.

Open up the Terminal application from Applications/System Tools. At the command prompt type cat /etc/fstab. I too am getting irritated with CD woes in FC3. I can only read data CDs. If I put an audio CD in my CD-R drive it locks up. If I put it in my CD-RW drive it starts to play but I get no sound. This bloomin thing worked fine with FC2.

this is almost enough to make me migrate back ot suse. if only it was free.

thanks for the tip. i'll try that and get back to you