Yes another Debian question From me

[jjjj]

I finally got Debian running. Thanks to everybody here that helped me.

Hopefully this will be my last debian question for a while.

When I log in as root. I do an ls or a dir, and I see nothing. It just does this.
debian# ls
debian#

Shouldnt I have some directory or something like home or something that show up?? I dont think I have any directories. When I was installing packages I wanted, I think I hit the wrong button and nothing got installed. But I am sure I should have at least one directory there.

I was going through my book, it told me you had to mount things like a cdrom and stuff. So I go mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom
But it tells me cdrom cant be mounted. Also I cant open my cd rom drive. But if I ls /cdrom it lists the directories on the cdrom.

I also tried to edit it my lilo.conf file. The book I have says use ae as the command for a text editor. That works but it tells me cannot find /etc/lilo.conf.

Am I missing something?? Do I have to reinstall Debian?? It seems like I am missing alot of stuff. It gives me an error when I type xf86config. It says no such file or directory. Is there a way to get everything off cd that I am missing??? I am at a loss here.

Thanks for any help. Also sorry for the length of my post. And all the questions I ask. It must get annoying. But you guys have helped me alot so far so thank you.

[pbharris]

hello,
when you log in you in the directory /root - which is probably almost empty when you first log in, the should be a couple of hidden files to see them try ls -a , to see the main directory try ls /

it is possible tehcdro is already mounted try doing a df and see what happens, that tells you all the free space you have on all mounted partitions.

the file /etc/lilo.conf is not there? how did you boot? grub?

[jjjj]

Hmm thanks. No I boot into linux from a boot disk. Then when I just start up my comp windows starts.

Is there anything I can do to get the packages I missed when I first installed like X. Apt-get off the cd or something.


Thanks for the help.