[Fwd: Re: Mounting A Floppy from the GNOME Desktop]
Bob Perry
rperry4 at earthlink.net
Sat Aug 28 20:16:33 PDT 2004
Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
>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:
>>
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>>
>>>On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 18:34, Bob Perry wrote:
>>>
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>>>
>>>>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
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>>>
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>>>
>>>
>>>>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.
>
>
The directory entries look like this:
/dev/fd0 crw-r----- root operator
/dev/acd0c crw-r----- root operator
Bob
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