Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 23:21:12 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Bob Perry <rperry4@earthlink.net> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: Mounting A Floppy from the GNOME Desktop] Message-ID: <1093749671.55460.19.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <41314B2F.7000108@earthlink.net> References: <4131432D.5020308@earthlink.net> <1093748306.55460.15.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <41314B2F.7000108@earthlink.net>
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--=-wsZNvHFM16JlehL9Q3Uw Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 23:19, Bob Perry wrote: > Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: >=20 > >On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 22:45, Bob Perry wrote: > > =20 > > > >>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>=20 > >><1093733394.55460.8.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> > >> > >> > >> > >>Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > >> > >> =20 > >> > >>>On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 18:34, Bob Perry wrote: > >>>=20 > >>> > >>> =20 > >>> > >>>>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=20 > >>>>this issue? > >>>> =20 > >>>> > >>>> =20 > >>>> > >>>http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q19 > >>> > >>>Joe > >>> > >>>=20 > >>> > >>> =20 > >>> > >>>>Thank you. > >>>>Bob Perry > >>>> =20 > >>>> > >>>> =20 > >>>> > >>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. > >> =20 > >> > > > >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. > > =20 > > > The directory entries look like this: > /dev/fd0 crw-r----- root operator > /dev/acd0c crw-r----- root operator And unless you're root, you don't have write access to those. Joe >=20 >=20 > Bob --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-wsZNvHFM16JlehL9Q3Uw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBMUunb2iPiv4Uz4cRAiA4AJ9QfW1cZMCoYjAFFOliL5sgB+sUVwCgk0LH 3Kz52GbfBZk2huLWACRoTRk= =MFCh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-wsZNvHFM16JlehL9Q3Uw--
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