Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 23:19:11 -0400 From: Bob Perry <rperry4@earthlink.net> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: Mounting A Floppy from the GNOME Desktop] Message-ID: <41314B2F.7000108@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <1093748306.55460.15.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <4131432D.5020308@earthlink.net> <1093748306.55460.15.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: >On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 22:45, Bob Perry wrote: > > >>Forgot to cc the list. >> >>-------- Original Message -------- >>Subject: Re: Mounting A Floppy from the GNOME Desktop >>Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 22:42:32 -0400 >>From: Bob Perry <rperry4@earthlink.net> >>To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> >>References: <41310868.50603@earthlink.net> >><1093733394.55460.8.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> >> >> >> >>Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: >> >> >> >>>On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 18:34, Bob Perry wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>Section 7.10.1 of the Nautilus 2.6.3 help text instructs you to >>>>open the Computer icon on the GNOME desktop and double click >>>>on the Floppy object if you wish to mount a floppy diskette. The >>>>only objects in my Computer dialogue box are the FileSystem >>>>and Network objects. There is a floppy folder in the FileSystem >>>>file but I was expecting an icon/object as indicated. This is my >>>>fstab data: >>>> >>>># Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# >>>>/dev/fd0 /floppy msdos rw,noauto 0 0 >>>> >>>>Is there other inofrmation available which will help me resolve >>>>this issue? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q19 >>> >>>Joe >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>Thank you. >>>>Bob Perry >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>Thanks Joe for the faq2 site. It's now a part of my bookmarks. >> >>Both floppy and cdrom objects appear in the Computer dialogue >>window but I receive the message "Unable to mount selected >>volume. msdos: /dev/fd0: Permission denied." when I select >>the floppy. Similar problem with the cdrom object. >> >>I receive the same message when mounting manually from the >>command line as user. However, there is no problem when I >>"su" to root and then mount the floppy. I have user ownership >>of both mountpoints. >> >> > >You also need to make sure you have write access to the device in >question (e.g. /dev/fd0 or /dev/acd0c). If not, you will only be able >to mount the volume read-only from the command line. > > The directory entries look like this: /dev/fd0 crw-r----- root operator /dev/acd0c crw-r----- root operator Bob -- I've learned that whatever hits the fan will not be evenly distributed. FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p2 #0
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