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

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 23:19, 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

And unless you're root, you don't have write access to those.

Joe

> 
> 
> Bob
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