[Fwd: Re: Mounting A Floppy from the GNOME Desktop]

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 22:45, Bob Perry wrote:
> 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 at earthlink.net>
> To: 	Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com>
> References: 	<41310868.50603 at earthlink.net> 
> <1093733394.55460.8.camel at 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.

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.

Joe

> 
> 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
> 
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