[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?
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>>>>
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>>>>
>>>http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q19
>>>
>>>Joe
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>>> 
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>Thank you.
>>>>Bob Perry
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>>>>
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>>>>
>>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.
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>>
>
>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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