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

[Bob Perry]

Bob Perry wrote:

> 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:
>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>>> 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.
>>  
>>
> The directory entries look like this:
> /dev/fd0       crw-r-----   root   operator
> /dev/acd0c   crw-r-----   root   operator
>
>
> Bob
>
Just noticed that the Nautilus file manager doesn't recognize
the change to root when you perform the "su" command.
That would explain the permissions problem.  My guess is that if
I ran startx as root, the problem would be solved.

Bob

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