Hello from Windows XP-- I was trying to open either the /media/dvd or the /media/cdrecorder from su root so as I could load the old WordPerfect 8 from a few years ago. (See recent posts from me as to modern WordPerfect.) I went to the system window, or whatever you call the window that lets you type in commands directly. I did su root and typed in my password. I sent "mount /media/dvd" with the disk in the drive, and then tried to access it. "Media not found" Then I tried the same thing from the /CDRecorder with the same result. I tried umounting, and remounting with the same result. When I tried to access the drives via the "My Computer" icon, it said that it could not access the drives, or words to that effect. I went back to root, and tried to umount the dvd and it said that multiple mounts were in effect. No idea how to get out of that. Finally, I powered off the machine, using the green head at the lower left. I tried to reboot, and the first time, it came up with "Starting Name Service Cache Daemon done" and it hung So I tried the failsafe boot, and got as far as "starting CRON daemon done" and it hung I now have no way to get back to the Linux stuff. I don't know why I couldn't read the CD, and I certainly don't know what to do next. I would like to save the files I've downloaded to KMail "saved mails" and a few others, if there is a way to do it. I realize that you can't read KMail files without KMail, so I will have to get some kind of KDE system working, somewhere. Should I just give up on this and go back to 8.0? (Assuming I can still locate the disks?) And how to save the stuff? --doug
* Doug McGarrett
I realize that you can't read KMail files without KMail, so I will have to get some kind of KDE system working, somewhere.
No, you do not need kmail to read the mail saved by kmail. It is in mbox format (at least on my machine) and perfectly readable by mutt, pine, nail/mail, mozilla and anything else that *can* read *mbox* format. The only thing that is not readable is the index files which kmail will recreate for you if you delete them. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/photos
On 15.08.04,23:23, Doug McGarrett wrote:
Hello from Windows XP--
I was trying to open either the /media/dvd or the /media/cdrecorder from su root so as I could load the old WordPerfect 8 from a few years ago.
(See recent posts from me as to modern WordPerfect.)
I went to the system window, or whatever you call the window that lets you type in commands directly. I did su root and typed in my password.
I sent "mount /media/dvd" with the disk in the drive, and then tried to access it. "Media not found" Then I tried the same thing from the /CDRecorder with the same result. I tried umounting, and remounting with the same result. When I tried to access the drives via the "My Computer" icon, it said that it could not access the drives, or words to that effect. I went back to root, and tried to umount the dvd and it said that multiple mounts were in effect. No idea how to get out of that. Finally, I powered off the machine, using the green head at the lower left.
I tried to reboot, and the first time, it came up with "Starting Name Service Cache Daemon done" and it hung
So I tried the failsafe boot, and got as far as "starting CRON daemon done" and it hung
I now have no way to get back to the Linux stuff. I don't know why I couldn't read the CD, and I certainly don't know what to do next.
I would like to save the files I've downloaded to KMail "saved mails" and a few others, if there is a way to do it. I realize that you can't read KMail files without KMail, so I will have to get some kind of KDE system working, somewhere.
Should I just give up on this and go back to 8.0? (Assuming I can still locate the disks?) And how to save the stuff?
You can try to boot the original install media (CD 1 or DVD 1) and
select Installation, then choose the language and Keyboard and wait for
the next screen. Then Select REPAIR INSTALLED SYSTEM.
- Jostein
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Jostein Berntsen
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