[newbie] Mandrake 8.2 to 9.0

[Antony Hilliard]

Roscoe,

I'm by no means an expert.  Here's what I would check:


> I have the cd in the tray ready to go
> and I type the command into the shell but nothing happens. Where am I going
> wrong?


-what error message do you get when you type that command?

-The CD is in the drive, but is the drive mounted?  If there is no graphical 
way to do that on your Mandrake 9.0 setup you can type 'mount /dev/cdrom' at 
the prompt.  That should work for most systems.

-If the drive is mounted, you might have to find the directory that contains 
the 'hcfpcimodem-2.4.18-6mdk.i685.rpm' file.  Often the CD-ROM will be 
mounted on the directory /mnt/cdrom.  Once you locate it, you can specify the 
full path to rpm like so:  "rpm -i 
/mnt/cdrom/your/directory/here/hcfpcimodem-2.4.18-6mdk.i685.rpm" 

I'm afraid I haven't used Mandrake in awhile so I might be missing an easier 
way to go about this.  Anyone else please advise.

Cheers,

-Antony