[CLUE-Talk] Newbie looking for Linux (Mandrake?) help

[Richard Knechtel]

This isn't exactly help with your problem. But, I am also a VB programmer 
by trade. YOu might also want to check into Omnis studio (ww.omnis.net). 
Besides looking into the Kylix that Jeff mentioned.


At 10:03 PM 7/17/97 +0000, you wrote:
>I need help!!
>
>I am a relative newcomer to Linux. I live in Buena Vista, Colorado, and there
>are no Linux guru's around to help me. I am a Visual Basic programmer who
>wanted to see what the "buzz" about Linux was about. I made another system as
>follows:
>Asus P5 with K6-2 350 and 64Megs
>6.4 G Hard drive
>40X CDROM
>3.5" floppy
>External Modem
>
>I got disks for Mandrake 7.2 and started to install.The first CDROM installed
>fine but when it asked for the second disk, it would not recognise it. The
>install finished just fine without the second disk and everything seems to
>work, including  DUN and sound. However I can't access the CD. I would get
>"You do not have permission for this device" from root. Following a
>suggestion on the Mandrake user site, I changed the fstab from
>/mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
>to
>/mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto user,noauto,exec,ro,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0
>and when I try to mount with "mount /mnt/cdom" I get
>"/dev/cdrom is not a block device".
>CD Player indicates the disk is ejected all the time. I know the drive works
>because I installed Linux from it!!
>
>I could sure use some knowledgeable advise!!
>
>Jim (Wish you guys were closer) Hodgers
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