big sigh and many questions.

[Bear in SFO]

The CDROM, if I remember correctly, would be either /mnt/cdrom or /dev/cdrom

At 05:55 PM 10/3/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi there. Ok in terms of mounting a filesystem, you do mount devicename
>/mnt. /mnt is your mount point in this case. In order to determine what
>device node your cdrom is mapped to, you can do the following: dmesg >
>output. Include the > sign for this is a redirection operator! The above
>command will redirect all the kernel start-up messages to the file output
>which you can view with the command: pico output. Then press ctrl+x to
>exit. In terms of telnetting/ssh to other machines, have you tried the ip
>address instead of the hostname? I.e., instead of public.library.com, try
>24.62.33.1? The above is hypothetical. Do you know what dns servers your
>isp uses? Once ou find out, you need to enter these values in
>/etc/resolv.conf in the form nameserver serverip, where serverip is the ip
>address of the server. Each server has its own line with nameserver
>preceding it. Good luck. If you have any more questions, you can e-mail me
>at igueths at attbi.com
>
>microsoft dialogue
>    This company has performed an illegal operation and will be shut down.
>    If the problem persists, delete winblows and install linux
>    close button
>
>On Thu, 3 Oct 2002, Anna Schneider wrote:
>
> >
> > Anna Schneider back again.  See I try to work on my system, hit problems
> > almost immediately and then don't do anything for two months.  Such is my
> > relationship with computers.  Now, let's see if I can make any sense.
> >
> > First, I did get a couple of tutorial, I think they are tutorial, Red Hat
> > CD's with my system, but I don't know how to access them.  I have to do
> > something with mount don't I, but I do I know what I'm mounting, and how
> > do I know which device is designated as what, and once I get the CD
> > writer/reader mounted, how do I read the information it has?
> >
> > second, I'm still having modem problems.  I can dial in with ppp okay, but
> > then I can't seem do telnet or ssh, and I don't know where their config
> > files are, or their how-to files.  I means I've skimmed the info pages on
> > them but it's all jibberish to me.  When I try ssh, I get something about
> > host name resolution failure, and telnet just can't find the host.  Now,
> > from my non-ppp account on Drizzle, I often telnet to the catalog ofr the
> > Washington Talking Book and Braille Library, and that works fine, but when
> > I even tried doing that on my Linux machine, I couldn't.  It couldn't find
> > it or something, but I'm wondering if it's actually a problem on my end.
> >
> > This doesn't make any sense does it.  I can't do anything.  Every time I
> > try I go backwards.  I don't understand the the info pages because they
> > are so terminology ladend.  I can't find help on the things I need because
> > I don't know where to look. Oh, and I can only access my moem as root, not
> > as anther user and I can find where to change that because I don't know
> > what to look for.
> >
> > Can anyone sort through this and give me pointers.  This is starting to
> > throw my life into chaos.
> >
> > Thanks much.
> >
> > Anna
> >
> >
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