Hi everybody,

yet another noobie question: I have two CD-Rom drives, one regular one and a 4x burner. Thing is that the regular one is kinda not that great and stuff, so I usually just work with my burner because it reads more CDs error-free. Anyway, the regular CD drive is mounted as CD-Rom while the burner is mounted as CD-Rom2. I want to change that order since many programs (like some ripping utilities, etc.) always look for CD-Rom not CD-Rom2. How can I do this? My system is Mandrake 9.2 runnig KDE3.1.

Kind regards,

Napper

open /etc/fstab and chaneg the reference around in there. most higher level programs will use that file for their configuration too.

Okay, please help me one more time here, this "vi" thingy is driving me crazy. So I need to edit that file you showed me, but if I just pop it open in KEdit I cannot save it (permission denied). I tried vi but that is just a tad to user-unfriendly for your average linux niewbe. Is there a way to tell KEdit (or any other GUI based editor) that I am the man with the root password, so I can change my files in a more user friendly fashion?

Kind regards,

Napper

In a terminal, type su then enter. Then enter the root password. Then type kedit. Once you have edited the file and closed kedit, type exit to stop being root.

Whoa! That was easy! I'm impressed! Thank you very much mate, file is changed, and ready to go! This whole Linux stuff is still rather new to me but I am very impressed with this OS I must say. A bit more of fiddling and I think I will just stick with it!

Thanks both of you!

Reg.

Napper