Help installing new brand spanking new xfree86 :)

[Phyll]

Ok..I have found out what my problem is by the almighty gnome. :D
Anyways, I have this script, xinstall.sh to be exact. And it says to type xinstall.sh -check in whatever directory that it's in to see what binaries I need to d/l. Well, it's on a cd :eek: and I need to get to there, but I don't know how. When I have done that how will I be able to install the xfree86 so I can get the leet lin graphix? :eek:

[bugfix]

I don't understand your question, could you re-phrase it?

To 'get to' the cd you need to mount it, this is done by:
mount /dev/cdrom

This then 'links' the cd-rom drive to a directory and you'll need to change in to that directory to see the files. What directory depends on the distro; with my SuSE box its /cdrom/ but with other distros it may be a subfolder within /mnt/ or /mount/

Like I said, I'm not quite sure what you want to do and therefore unsure how to help.

[bugfix]

Something to add. Once you've mounted the cd you can find the directory its mounted in and the exact location of the file by typing:
find / -name xinstall.sh

This is a quick dirty method (there are many better ways) and will take a little while to look through ALL the files on your computer but it should do the trick.

[Phyll]

Thank you vedy much. But, now I have another question. I can't mount my cd-rom! I looked through everything in my mandrake reference manual and installation guide! But, when I re-installed mandrake I was looking for where it said my dvd-rom drive is. So do I need to get a floppy disk and get the drivers for it? Or what? Because, the computer with mandrake on it is not connected to the internet. Anyways, the dvd-rom is a 16x dvd sony. Thank you vedy much.

[avatiar]

double post - sorry :rolleyes:

[ 14 March 2002: Message edited by: avatiar ]

[avatiar]

I am not sure I understand your mounting problem... what does it say when you try to mount the cd using

mount /dev/cdrom

?

[Phyll]

<STRONG>Ok, I followed what someone had told.. Uh.. I forget the name, but it is in Technical Support Forum. I can't mount my dvd-rom, even though mandrake detects it and says it is at /dev/hdc.
When I type 'ls -l /dev/cdrom' I get:
lr-xr-xr-x 1 root root 13 Mar 14 16:30 /dev/cdrom -&gt; cdroms/cdrom0

And when I type 'ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom' I get:
ln: '/dev/cdrom': File exists

Right now in the fstab I have:
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0

In the fstab before I changed it, it had:
/dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom auto iocharset=iso8869-1,umask=0,ro,nosuid,noauto,user,nodev,codepage=850 ,exec 0 0

everytime I type 'mount /mnt/cdrom' I come up short w/ it replying 'No medium found'. Does anyone know how i can fix this? Thanks ya vedy much.</STRONG>

Forgive me everyone, I posted this on the 'Hardware Related' forum also. :eek:

[ 14 March 2002: Message edited by: Phyll ]

[TheBouleOfFools]

to mount a cdrom you type in mount /dev/cdrom/device /path/to/cdrom Replace /dev/cdrom/device with your cdrom's device path and /path/to/cdrom with the place to mount the cdrom to. For instance, I'd type in mount /dev/cdroms/cdrom1 /mnt/cdrom. In actuality all I have to type in is mount /mnt/cdrom because it's already set up in fstab. the reason my device path is /dev/cdroms/cdrom1 is because I use devfs. Your path might be /dev/hdc or /dev/cdrom or something else.