Re: Embarassing NEWBIE Question

[Mary Honeycutt <mkhoney@bellsouth.net>]

"Bryan K. Walton" wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>         Please forgive me for asking such an embarassing question:  I have
> 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)?
> 
> Thanks!
> Bryan
> 
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Hi, this should mount your CD-ROM:

  mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom (your /dev may not be hdc. It may be
hdb or
                                    hdd.)

then, this should copy everything.

  cd /cdrom
  cp *.deb /usr/tmp

You may have to be root to do this, depending on how your permissions
are set.

MaryK