Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 13:20:45 +0100 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: crzdgns1@starpower.net Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where can I find more information Message-ID: <20050128122045.GA56376@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <8e97bec7.c591c815.81b3300@ms07.mrf.mail.rcn.net> References: <8e97bec7.c591c815.81b3300@ms07.mrf.mail.rcn.net>
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--NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 12:01:47AM -0500, crzdgns1@starpower.net wrote: > Hello,=20 > =20 > My name is Mark. I recently banished windows and=20 > windows-based programs from my (ancient) computer because it=20 > is too slow to handle windows XP and all of the attendant=20 > programs required to keep it virus and ad-free. I have=20 > installed FreeBSD-5.3-RELEASE on my computer (Intel Pentium=20 > II Celeron, 330 MHz, ~500 Mb Ram, Western Digital Hard Disk=20 > (40 Gb, Master), Western Digital Hard Disk (6 Gb, Slave),=20 > floppy disk (1.44 Mb), IOMega ZIP-Drive (100Mb, IDE), Hitachi=20 > CD/DVD-ROM, Memorex CD-RW, Diamond Multimedia Viper v550=20 > video card, and a few other ancient goodies). I am having=20 > great difficulty mounting and unmounting floppies, zips, and=20 > CDs from my system. Have a look at my FreeBSD page. There might be some helpfull hints there: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/freebsd/ Some highlights: - to mount filesystems as a normal user, the sysctl variable vfs.usermount must be set to 1. (you are logged in as a normal user, righ= t?) - when mounting filesystems, you must be the owner of the mountpoint. - you need read and write persmissions on the devices where the filesystems reside. (see devfs.conf and devfs.rules) Hope this helps, Roland --=20 R.F. Smith /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign r s m i t h @ x s 4 a l l . n l \ / No HTML/RTF in e-mail http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ X No Word docs in e-mail public key: http://www.keyserver.net / \ Respect for open standards --NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFB+i4dEnfvsMMhpyURAqQcAKCeuUbQi8V9gWS4ZvEx+UeWCQmKHwCfaH0G qH5QCbZm+sz6pA4Bj1DKiqw= =2arh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh--
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