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You can always access your CD with a regular file manager such as konqueror, nautilus and many others. Probably its located under /mnt/ as "cdrom" or "cdrom1". Also you can open a shell and: $cd /mnt/cdrom. Hope this was what you meant. Dont remember the logout command as i have put it in the menu under "exit" a long time ago and im at the work computer at the moment, one of the bad things about GUI... :?

Installed the RPM (MenuMaker) but didnt find out how to run it. :?

I installed the rc2 rel. last night. As i allready had the old version 3.8 (the one that comes with MD 9.1 ) installed, the XFce entry in KDM was present. I replaced the contents of the XFce file in the /etc/X11/wmsession.d dir with the new content . This was not exactly by the book but it seems to work fine. I havent had much time to test this wm yet, but it looks extremly good, loads fast (at least until i find out how to load applications at startup. The ~/Desktop/Autostart didnt seem to work for me) and it also has this root-menu accessed by left clicking and configured via editing a textfile. Seems like fluxbox (wich i've used for a half year now) is getting some competition.

Take a look at this: http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php...hlight=advansys

Have you got right permissions on: cdrecord, mkisofs and cdrdao? I just remember once after i had installed the xcdroast-application that K3B couldnt find my cdrom and burner. I checked the permissin on these files and it looked like xcdroast had changed it to some strange (strange to me) r w s - - - - - -. I just changed the permisson back to 755 for everyone on these files and things went back to normal. ( what i really should have done was probably to add my user to some group created by xcdroast, but ...)

Yes, works fine now! Thanks! Should the modprobe command be inserted in say /etc/modules.conf to load at bootup?

...finally home. Lets see lsmod... no, no trace of advansys.o. So it inserted although harddrake listed it. How can i fix this?

Edit: the SCSI card is: "Advansys 3925" and the drivers are as far as i have read, supposed to be in the kernel.

I have tried to connect a hp-4c scanner to an Avantec pci SCSI card. I can verify during boot that the card recognizes the scanner, and the card seems to be reprted ok in harddrake, but the 'cat /proc/scsi/scsi' only reports the cdwriter and reader. No trace of the scanner at this point. Does anyone have an idea?

Thanks. I can just confirm your answer is right. I had a look through the services a while back and remember that portmapper was one of the ones i decided to stop. Now, removing the NFS-utilities from the system as i dont need it at the moment, made the error message vanish as well.

I have recently been troubled by this message during shutdown. Does anyone know what can cause this?

Answering yes to the 'force repair' was obviously what i did. Next time i guess i will answer no. But will the OS be happy with unrepaired errors in the file system?

Is this a periodic check that is set up by default when installing the system or will i have to specify this somewhere. But; as i mentioned previously i had a terrible expierience when answering yes to this on a nother occasion so i will make a backup first i guess.

Thanks for your reply. I is a desktop installation with ext3 so i guess i shouldnt bother too much.

After unclean shutdown (usually power failure, not ML freezing or somthing ofcourse 8) ) the question arises when booting: Force integrity check? And i have to decide in seconds. Is this parallell to the windoze scandisk. Should i answer yes? I once did with little luck. I didnt manage to get back in to the system at all. This was a fresh install so i didnt bother much to find out what happend, just reinstalled. But in general what is the integrity check supposed to do , and is there any risk of loosing data connected to it?

What about "streamer" located on one of the MDK cds. I tried it once but i newer figured it out. Maybe someone has?

Thnk for your replys . Sorry i didn give enough information. Im using MDK9.1 (very satisfied). My computer is connected to a switch along with three windows computers and were all connected to a ADSL modem wich also acts as a DHCPserver on the lan. I would ofcourse want the firewall to give access to the othes computers on the lan , but that shouldent be any problem, just allow a set of ip's in the rules file from the range the DHCP server uses? Btw. the shorewall gui in mcc has never been popular before as i have read on the forum. Is 9.1 version better? It dosent give many choices. I guess i should leave all the fields blank as i dont want any access FROM the internet. The only problem then would be the lan ofcourse, but that could fixed by editing the config files. But i do think i will be more comfortable with setting this up manually.

I am setting up shorewall on my computer. I have downloaded the one-interface example files and reading the docs; there are two things im not able to figure out: 1. Whats the norfc1918 entry in interfaces actually doing? 2. In the rules file theres a line: ACCEPT net fw icmp 8 This line has no # in front so it is "activated" by default. What does it do? Can anyone explain this?

If you havent allready,maybe you should take a look at www.linux-usb.org . A visit here solved my problem with digital camera connection!

Is k3b the only recording software that requires scsi emulation for cdreader? Anyway k3b was not able to mount the cd at all. I ran the setup as root and disabled the 'write to fstab' part as i have been adviced. I guess theres something i have to edit in fstab. Ill look in to it later, but i will try out gcombust.

It works now, with scsi-emulation the way i intended it to. Well i finally opened my box to see where i actually connected the cdrom, and... ehremm it was at the secondary ide, not the primary as i remembered. maybe i should change my nick? Thanks anyway mtweidmann, but i do think i have read somewhere on this forum that e.g. k3b requires scsi-emulation to work right. Yes, found the thread: http://www.mandrakeusers.org/viewtopic.php...csi+cdrom+fstab[/url]

Hi I have just added a cdrom to my system at hdb (slave at primary ide). I have in advance a hard drive at hda (master) and CDRW at hdc (master) lilo.conf has been edited: append="devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi quiet" and /etc/fstab looks like this: /dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda7 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660 user,noauto,ro 0 0 /dev/scd1 /mnt/cdrom2 iso9660 user,noauto,ro 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto iocharset=iso8859-1,sync,codepage=850,unhide,noauto,nosuid,umask=0,user,nodev 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda6 /usr ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 What happens is: cd-player is detected at boot, i can play audio cd in it, but when trying to mount; mount /mnt/cdrom2 i get this message: mount: special device /dev/scd1 does not exist Well thats correct, it doesent. Should i create it? Btw. mount /mnt/cdrom works fine for the CDRW at hdc. Can anyone see somthing wrong here?

Giving myself read-access to this file, would it be unwise? Its just a log file and i use it often so it would be convenient not having to be root to read it, but i dont like the idea of messing with security on my system. Are there some general rules or advices here?

Great ! It works for me to now! Really simple when pointed in right direction. Thanks!

Great! I run fluxbox and use konqueror as filemanager. Had to wait for "ages" for konqueror to start, but now 1-2 sec. Tanks!