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Posted: Mar. 24 2007,23:57 QUOTE

Hello Everyone,

I am new to Linux, and managed to get DSL installed on one of my old machines. It is installed to the hard drive (full install) however, i do not have a network card for it and need to load an application into. I burned a cd with the app on it but when i put it into the drive once DSL is running it reads the /cdrom directory as empty. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this. I also have usb ports if it is possible to use a key instead. Any help would be appreciated thanks.

P.S. The app i am trying to install is Asterisk.
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Posted: Mar. 25 2007,03:36 QUOTE

Quote (Dirk7589 @ Mar. 24 2007,18:57)
I am new to Linux, and managed to get DSL installed on one of my old machines. It is installed to the hard drive (full install) however, i do not have a network card for it and need to load an application into. I burned a cd with the app on it but when i put it into the drive once DSL is running it reads the /cdrom directory as empty. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this. I also have usb ports if it is possible to use a key instead. Any help would be appreciated thanks.

P.S. The app i am trying to install is Asterisk.

You have to mount the cd-rom. From command line as user dsl (skip sudo if you're in root terminal):
sudo mount cdrom

(EDIT: Oh yeah, you also need to umount when you're finished using it. You won't get the CD back until you do. The syntax is the same, just put a u in front of mount.)

You can also mount from emelfm (as root) by right clicking on cdrom in the right pane and selecting mount.

I just searched for Asterisk and looked at an open source PBX app website and I assume that's what you're doing. Did you download a binary or source? DSL doesn't come with a compiler so you'll need to add one before compiling anything. You can find GCC in the system area using the MyDSL browser (net section of the menu).

BTW, there's not really a "full install." "Frugal" doesn't mean anything's left out, it means that the ISO is installed to and run from the hard drive as an ISO instead of as a traditional hard drive installation.


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Posted: Mar. 25 2007,04:19 QUOTE

/cdrom is used for frugals - since it appears you are using a traditional debian-style hd-install, it is not used (by default).

DSL has the mountpoints designated in /mnt/ ... you can either use the mount tool, or manually use the mount command.
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