Greetings! I am new to the list, having come here in an effort to learn more about linux. I've been into computers as a hobbyist (small "h") <G> for about seven years. I've found myself becominging more interested in linux, especially with all this "enforced registration" foolishness now pervading windows land. All my win friends think linux is "too hard," and they may be right, but I'm willing to make a stab at it! My knowledge of the command line is essentially nil (I'm just waking up out of my windows fog) but, like I say, you've got to start somewhere... Anyway, my bro in law gave me the latest mandrake distro, which I have installed on its own drive in my machine. The machine is an 866-P3/256MB. The install went very well and there is now only one problem, which brings me to my question. I simply cannot get access to my CD burner. It is an ATAPI Plextor 8/4/32 that is on the list of "good" hardware. It was detected during instalation. However when I go to access something on the drive I am told I do not have access rights to this location (even when logged in as root). I'll copy my fstab file below for reference. ANY help would be greatly appreciated. Just keep it simple <BG> Regards, TeamStrange By: Adam Wolkoff Vice President, Special Projects adam at teamstrange.com http://www.teamstrange.com FSTAB FILE BELOW: /dev/hdb1 / ext2 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hdb6 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 /mnt/cdrom2 /mnt/cdrom2 supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom2 0 0 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows vfat user,exec,umask=0,codepage=850,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb5 swap swap defaults 0 0