Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 09:25:09 +0100 From: Chris Delnooz <c.delnooz@home.nl> To: "Rick K. Wilson" <rick@pacifier.com>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Couple of Questions Message-ID: <20020222082728.NNTO29521.mail4.home.nl@there> In-Reply-To: <200202220421.g1M4LYn43474@ccreefdwellers.com> References: <200202220421.g1M4LYn43474@ccreefdwellers.com>
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On Friday 22 February 2002 05:21, Rick K. Wilson wrote: > First off, I am new to FreeBSD, and so far I love it. Since I came from > Caldera, some things where little easy, but the ports selection brought > me over, thanks..... Yup, i like it too. I came from Mandrake and then from LinuxFromScratch (see www.linuxfromscratch.org, vey useful to build your own distro once :P But with FBSD i noticed i had to learn a lot still. But i'm having a good time doing it :) > Okay, question: I would like to be able to access the CD-ROM and my > CD-Writer as a normal user. How can I do that? > I just want to tell you that these kind of questions should actually go to the freebsd-questions list. Enfin here's my answer: 1. open the file sysctl.conf in /etc and add the line vfs.usermount=1 next time the machine boots this will make sure users may mount. to have immediate effect: sysctl vfs.usermount=1 2. make the devices user accessable. for me the cdrom and cdrw where /dev/acd0c and /dev/acd1c so a chmod 777 on those devices made sure anyone can use them (i'm not happy with it, because now everyone can do a lot with them, i might make a group where certain users are in that can access the devices) 3. create a mount-point in the user home dir. My standard user has a couple of mountpoints in $HOME/mnt/ to provide access to cdrom/cdrw/zip/floppy users should now be able to mount devices > Another question, I would like to be able to burn with my writer, and I > have to enable the SCSI-emulation, where will I find that? if you have an atapi burner you should just be able to use burncd. I haven't tried myself, but i remember this issue on freebsd-questions recently. Do a search on the list archive, it'll pop-up ah, and if you wonder how to do something, also make sure to check www.freebsddiary.org, the net's best collection on how to do things with FBSD :) it helped me more than once already! regards Chris Delnooz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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