Re: Linux newbie questions

["James C. Hall MD" <heartdoc@nwtcc.com>]

Ron Johnson wrote:

On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 23:44 -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote:
  

On Monday 18 April 2005 10:01 pm, James C. Hall, MD wrote:
    

Congrats and good luck!

[snip]
  

an idea if it doesnt work on your machine. you can run knoppix off a cd and 
see it you can access  your device there.

before  you do that what to do to try it on your system?
plug it in. 
as root do 
mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt 
and then do 
ls /mnt
and see if  you see your files.
    

To follow up on Mitchell's comments, you probably should install
the "2.6" kernel.  Try this:
  # apt-get install kernel-image-2.6-386

(Hopefully, this will alter GRUB for you.  If not, another learning
experience!)

Once you reboot into the 2.6 kernel, install udev.  This package
allows you to write rules of action for each kind of device that
you define.

  

Hi Ron:

Ahh, it was a learning experience ! I'm up to kernel 2.6.8-2 now. The nVidia drivers at first prevented X-windows from starting and I couldn't re-run the script to re-install them - until I downloaded the kernel-headers for my version ! Then I was able to re-install the 3D drivers and everything functioned again. He he. And yes, grub was updated.  I'll get to the MP3 player when I have more time - my day job beckons !

Thanks again, Ron !

Jamie