mounting cdrom
Hi, last question for the night...and just in case the other questions don't scream "Absolute Newbie"...
I was trying to install Adobe Acrobat off one of the disks appearing with the Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 for stupidheads kit, and this is what I tried... [terminal window, from user as su-root, and also from root kde logins]: <cd/auto/cdrom> message:no such file or directory so then: <mount/mnt/cdrom> <cd/mnt/cdrom> the first time I was able to proceed a little further, the second time I got the no such thing message: <cd Acrobat> <ls> <mkdir/tmp/adobe> <cp linux-ar-40_tar.gz/tmp/adobe> <cd/tmp/adobe> at this point, I got a no such directory message [next time I'll write it down...because OpenLinux doesn't recognise my printer either...or my soundcard...or really my video card, but at least I can fake that]. I understand that I have to 'mount' things, rather than just doubleclick an icon and let Windows do the work, but I don't quite follow what the mount process is [found Java NetBeans mystifying for same reason]. :rolleyes: yeah, and I see the tar - zip analogy, but don't yet follow that either. sigh. Thing is, I was successful in unpacking and running StarOffice on this distro...need another brain to see what I'm overlooking in this case. |
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When you "mount" something be it a cd-rom, or a partition
you are mounting the filesystem that is on it.......... |
Looks to me like you're forgetting to type a space after the command. It's really not that much different than Windows. Drive letters are just pre-defined mount points.
tar is an archive (puts a bunch of files into one file) and gz is compression. So a tar.gz file (or .tgz) is like a zip file (a compressed archive). I've never understood why Unix peeps have always liked using jargon like tarball when the word archive works perfectly well... job security I guess. ;) |
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