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On Tue, 4 Aug 1998, Chad R. Larson wrote:

> > >4. Since FreeBSD runs on PC hardware, I would have thought the default
> > >configuration would be set up to deal with all the "normal" devices one
> > >might expect to find on a PC. Although I don't anticipate using the floppy
> > >drive much if at all, still, it *is* there. I would have liked not to have
> > >had to manually edit my /etc/fstab just to be able to use my floppy drive.
> > 
> >    /etc/fstab is mainly for filesystems that you want mounted at boot time.
> > This is usually not desired with floppies. One normally just "mount"s them
> > by hand when needed (e.g. mount /dev/fd0a /mnt).
> > 
> > -DG
> 
> However an fstab line like:
>     /dev/fd0    /floppy    msdos     rw,noauto    0    0
> 
> makes it possible to say:
>     mount /floppy
> 
> which is easier to type and remember.

on my machine at home I've got:

chown $USER /dev/fd0a

in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/GiveConsole and

chown root /dev/fd0a

in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/TakeConsole

so that when people log in via xdm they can mount and use floppies without
being root (and some have pretty icons on their dsesktops to do it for
them...)

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