No Media Found - relating to CD Drives.

You can only mount CDs when there is actually a CD in the drive. Then you can use the kwikdisk icon or konqueror (services > storage media in the left side bar) to mount the CDs

If your hardware supports it, you can also right click the desktop > configure > behaviour > device icons and mark the checkboxes to show unmounted and mounted CD and DVD volumes. That means you get an icon on the desktop when you insert a CD.

Believe me when I say that virtually ALL internal CD / DVD readers and writers are supported in Linux, so it is not a driver issue.

Newbie or not Newbie, there's always a question

I have had both data and audio cd's in the drives. The progress bar from the desktop icon (when clicked on) does not move. Both drives worked fine prior to loading Mepis32. I have tried both drives separately plugged into the end of the cable with Jumpers in CS and master position.

I do not know if this is a symptom as well, but the computer is extremely slow compared to how it preformed with XP Pro. When I start a program it takes 20 seconds to open. Web pages also take 20 to 25 seconds to load and I have a very fast cable connection, my laptop running XP Pro can load 3 or 4 pages to this (Mepis32) workstation's 1 page load. I have 500 megs mem on a P4 processor. I thought the Mepis32 would close to the same speed as the XP system.

I am just learning, so I am sure I have something wrong somewhere.

Thanks, Robert

In that case something definitely went wrong with the installation.

First, check the md5sum of the iso. If it is OK, fire up the live CD and check if the other CD drive works well.

If you don't have the latest ISO (6.5.02) I recommend you get it and start from there.

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I was triggered bu the slow performance. MEPIS can at least run as fast as XP, and many times it is faster. Try loading webpages from the live CD as well and see how it performs.

Newbie or not Newbie, there's always a question

I now have only one CD drive in the system. When I load an audio CD, I can see the names of the tracks. So the system must be reading something off the CD. However when I try to mount (click on cd icon on Desktop for example), the progress bar stays on zero and times out. The player will also not "play" the CD.

The system is very slow all the way around. I do not have all the memory I though I had (mis-read the memory simms), the system is reporting 375 Meg of physical installed.

Where do I look to find out about md5sum and where can I see what ISO I have?

I have been poking around KinfoCenter and under storage devices, there are bar after each device except the CD, even though I can see the song titles, the systems does not display a bar after the mount point of /media/cdrom.

I clicked on the openGL icon in KinfoCenter and got a crash screen "The application KDE Info Center crashed and caused a signal 11 SigsegGV.

I clicked on Backtrace and got the smashed glass sound, that still makes me jump a bit...

I seem to always have weird problems, no matter what operating system, what OS, I always get the impossible problems. I look forward to these types of challenges because it causes you to really learn what you are working on, and be more capable of solving future problems on your own. I figure if everything went like the text said it would, all you would be is a good "direction follower". I need to be more than that, otherwise I will just wither up and die (mentally)!