Adding programs

[Janina Sajka]

You want to do a similar thing to your CD ROM. You want to mount it:

mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom 

is very likely all the command you'll need.

Once mounted, all the HOWTO files will be accessible in their own 
directory. Under RedHat/RPMS (note the capital letters, and use tab 
completion to make it easy on yourself), you'll find all kinds of rpms 
that will install documentation on your harddrive:

rpm -iv *

should take care of installing all of them.

PS: you might want to look at /usr/share/doc to see what docs are already 
installed. Also, you might want to create a symbolic link to this 
directory as follows:

ln -sf /usr/share/doc /usr/doc

in order to ensure that all docs end up in the same tree as you install 
new applications. 

 On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, 
Keith Heltsley wrote:

> Thanks for the help with the mount command.  Would that also work to
> view/copy the documentation files from the CDROM?
> 
> Does anyone here have the subscription info to get onto blinux-newbie or a
> similar list? I found it once but can't remember where.
> 
> from
> Keith H.
> 
> Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7th of your life.
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
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