Mounting the CD, changing the window manager

[GNU/br0wni3]

Hi,

Whats the "official" name for the CD drive? i used to mount it as
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

but mandrake 8.1 says
mount: special device /dev/cdrom does not exist

so whats the correct name?

Also, how do i change my deskmanager? Redhat has a super cool feat called switchdesk, all i had to do was open a term win, type that, enter, and a beautiful graphical desktop chooser appeared. Not present in mandrake..

thanks

[DMR]

/dev/cdrom is a link to the physical CD-ROM drive (hdb, hdc, etc.).

[scanez]

For your second question, do it manually in the .xinitrc file in your home directory. Just add the line

exec gnome-session (for gnome)
exec blackbox (for blackbox)
exec enlightenment (for enlightenment)
exec startkde (I think for KDE)
etc.

Just have one of those in your .xinitrc file.

Have fun
SC

[GNU/br0wni3]

Thanks..

Yeah, but my question is, what is the name of the physical cd rom drive?
hd what?

thanks

[GNU/br0wni3]

umm. no .xinitrc file under no home directory..

could i edit the xinitrc file under /etc/X11 ?

[scanez]

Originally posted by GNU/br0wni3:
<STRONG>Yeah, but my question is, what is the name of the physical cd rom drive?
hd what?</STRONG>
Well it depends what you have the cdrom setup as, master or slave? Most likely it will be /dev/hdc, if that doesn't work try /dev/hdd and as a final resort /dev/hdb. Once you know whiich one it is, do

ln -s /dev/hdX /dev/cdrom

to create the /dev/cdrom symlink. Then you can

mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

as you were doing before.

SC

[scanez]

Originally posted by GNU/br0wni3:
<STRONG>umm. no .xinitrc file under no home directory..</STRONG>
Create it.

touch .xinitrc

then you can edit it, or you could create it when you edit it

emacs .xinitrc
vi .xinitrc
etc...

Better to have one in your home directory than to change it system wide in /etc.

SC

[GNU/br0wni3]

scanez, thanks a lot. it was hdc by the way. :D

[scanez]

Always glad to help out :)

SC