Re: Embarassing NEWBIE Question
On Tue, Oct 26, 1999 at 10:20:11PM -0500, Bryan K. Walton wrote:
> Hi,
> Please forgive me for asking such an embarassing question: I have
<nothing embarrassing...>
> installed Debian 2.1 on my laptop and have struggled to correctly
> configure X. So I am now preparing to install XFree86 3.3.5 which I have
> been told will fix my problem. I have all of the XFree86 3.3.5 files
> burned onto a CD-ROM. I need to copy the files from the CD-ROM to a temp
> directory on my /usr partition. Can someone please tell me exactly
> what I need to type in order to do this? How do I get into the
> CDROM directory and how do I make Debian copy everything from that
> CDROM to /usr/temp (a subdirectory I created for this purpose)?
Bad... You shouldn't create directories willy nilly except in user
directories like /home, or perhaps in /usr/local. For future reference,
you might look at http://www.pathname.com/fhs .
Am wondering were you got the binaries from? Are they debs (*.deb) or
are they tarballs (*.tar.gz, or *.tgz, or just *.tar)?
Anyway, you need to "mount" the cdrom. Try:
your_prompt$ mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /cdrom
For this to work:
1) the empty directory /cdrom must exist (you can use /mnt instead --
it should exist). So mkdir /cdrom if it doesn't exist.
2) /dev/cdrom should be a symlink to the real device name (e.g.
/dev/hdc). Can't help you with this without knowing whether you have IDE
or SCSI and how those are hooked up.
Finally, if it worked.
your_prompt$ cp /cdrom/<your files> /tmp
Don't forgot to "umount /cdrom" when you're done.
If you have the man-db installed, you can read up on these commands with
man <command name>.
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