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Excuse me again, I am having a lot of trouble:

whoami says Í'm root, ok.
but:
cd /etc/fstab      gives     cd: 2: can't cd to cd/etc/fstab
and
go /etc/fstab      gives     sh: go: not found
and simply
/etc/fstab     says     "permission denied"

well, so I did "startx",  then in the JWM  I could discomment the msmod
options in /etc/fstab

later I did   mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom
(I've created both "/mnt/cdrom" and "/mnt/floppy" directory previously)
And I had the following messages:

mount: /dev/hdc is write-protected, mounting read-only
mounting /dev/hdc on /mnt failed: no medium found         (at that time
there was no CD on drive)

So I tried to insert an audio CD and mount it again, but it says there is an
error at track 2 and the mounting fails.
Do I have to make different mounts for each kind of media?

When I try to format a floppy,   fdformat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy   says:
FDFMTTRK: Device or resource busy

I don't understand the meaning of that message since I've opened the system
resources screen and it showed no significative modifications to say
something is "busy" (4.3% for one proccess and 0,x % for every others).

Certainly I'm making something wrong or I didn't do some important
procedure.

The problem is, I know NOTHING about Linux and despite the fact that I
really want to learn it, I can't find HOW to learn it methodically (
Commands are easy to find, but I think it's not enough ).
Can you recommend a good source? (unfortunately it has to be free)

Thank you again.
Teixeira