From owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 28 12:19:52 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3252616A4CE for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 12:19:52 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp-vbr5.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr5.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6231E43D41 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 12:19:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: from slackbox.xs4all.nl (slackbox.xs4all.nl [213.84.242.160]) by smtp-vbr5.xs4all.nl (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j0SCJoUV071041; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 13:19:50 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.xs4all.nl (Postfix, from userid 1001) id B778E61C3; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 13:20:45 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 13:20:45 +0100 From: Roland Smith To: crzdgns1@starpower.net Message-ID: <20050128122045.GA56376@slackbox.xs4all.nl> Mail-Followup-To: crzdgns1@starpower.net, freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org References: <8e97bec7.c591c815.81b3300@ms07.mrf.mail.rcn.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="NzB8fVQJ5HfG6fxh" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8e97bec7.c591c815.81b3300@ms07.mrf.mail.rcn.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! Organization: Me, organized? X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where can I find more information X-BeenThere: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Gathering place for new users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 12:19:52 -0000 --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--