From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 29 03:16:33 2004 Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG> Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2887616A4CE for <gnome@freebsd.org>; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 03:16:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net (snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C80743D78 for <gnome@freebsd.org>; Sun, 29 Aug 2004 03:16:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rperry4@earthlink.net) Received: from dialup-4.250.48.114.dial1.weehawken1.level3.net ([4.250.48.114]) by snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1C1GBC-0007cb-00; Sat, 28 Aug 2004 20:16:30 -0700 Message-ID: <41314B2F.7000108@earthlink.net> Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 23:19:11 -0400 From: Bob Perry <rperry4@earthlink.net> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040814 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> References: <4131432D.5020308@earthlink.net> <1093748306.55460.15.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <1093748306.55460.15.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: Mounting A Floppy from the GNOME Desktop] X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining <freebsd-gnome.freebsd.org> List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome>, <mailto:freebsd-gnome-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe> List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome> List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org> List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-gnome-request@freebsd.org?subject=help> List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome>, <mailto:freebsd-gnome-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe> X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 03:16:33 -0000 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