Thanks! I have a question... where can i go to go to my CD Rom? I'm trying to install my sound cd but it's not auto opening since it doesn't have an autorun file on the cd.
Two differences with Windows:
The first is that drives must be "mounted" to work. Windows always attempts to mount a drive, even when doing so is annoying and/or wrong. Linux, on the other hand, mostly does not mount drives automatically (which can sometimes also be annoying and/or wrong but is more conservative). You can always mount your CD-ROM for use by issuing the command "mount /mnt/cdrom" as the root user. After you have finished using the drive, you can "umount /mnt/cdrom" (please note, the command is "umount"... there is no "n" in it) and then the command "eject".
This is of course from the command line. From the desktop, I don't know how to mount it but I do know that you can right-click on the CD-ROM icon on your desktop after it's mounted and you will see an "eject" command in that menu. Clicking on that command will unmount the drive and eject the disk easily.
Note that there are no drive letters in Linux. Every directory is a sub-directory from the root directory, which is referred to as a single slash: /. You can find your CD-ROM at /mnt/cdrom.
-- Rodolfo J. Paiz rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.simpaticus.com
