Hi All

Anyone know how to select the CD ROM from the root directory.
I'm coming from a windows enviroment and was told to type startx for a GUI but startx returns "command not found"
Any ideas?
(RH6.1)

some directories will be different... from what ive seen there are a couple of ways to look at a cd on linux...

>mount /dev/cdrom
this will actually mount the cd drive...windows doesnt use this usually...
>cd /mnt/cdrom OR >cd /cdrom
this will put you actually in the directory
>ls
this is similar to <dir> in dos... it will list the top levels in the directory you are in

wanna "unmount" the cd? because yull notice with linux that your cdrom will not let you take the cd out until yu unmount it...

>umount /mnt/cdrom OR >umount /cdrom

Yes, my friend, the command is umount and not unmount... email me at hseritt@bellsouth.net if you need more help :-)

Thanks philfighter
That worked a treat
I set up linux at work with all my techie friends ariund me, installed ok but as soon as I tried to install it at home it crashes as soon as it goes to install the packages.
The error messages are too long for me to type out now, i'm going to a stag nite but thanks all the same
eric