Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 22:45:01 -0400 From: Bob Perry <rperry4@earthlink.net> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: "gnome@FreeBSD.org" <gnome@FreeBSD.org> Subject: [Fwd: Re: Mounting A Floppy from the GNOME Desktop] Message-ID: <4131432D.5020308@earthlink.net>
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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> <1093733394.55460.8.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: >On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 18:34, Bob Perry wrote: > > >>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 >>this issue? >> >> > >http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q19 > >Joe > > > >>Thank you. >>Bob Perry >> >> 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. I always run startx as user (I think that's recommended.), and then run su when I'm in the desktop. I'm sure there's something fundamentally wrong on my part. Just can't put my finger on it. Bob -- I've learned that whatever hits the fan will not be evenly distributed. FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p2 #0 -- I've learned that whatever hits the fan will not be evenly distributed. FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p2 #0
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