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

[Bob Perry]

Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:

>On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 23:28, Bob Perry wrote:
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>>Bob Perry wrote:
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>>>Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
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>>>>On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 22:45, Bob Perry wrote:
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>>>>>Forgot to cc the list.
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>>>>>-------- 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>
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>>>>>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:
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>>>>>>># Device Mountpoint FStype  Options   Dump  Pass#
>>>>>>>/dev/fd0  /floppy   msdos   rw,noauto  0     0
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>>>>>>>Is there other inofrmation available which will help me resolve 
>>>>>>>this issue?
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>>>>>>http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q19
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>>>>>>Joe
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>>>>>>>Thank you.
>>>>>>>Bob Perry
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>>>>>Thanks Joe for the faq2 site.  It's now a part of my bookmarks.
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>>>>>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.
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>>>>>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.
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>>>The directory entries look like this:
>>>/dev/fd0       crw-r-----   root   operator
>>>/dev/acd0c   crw-r-----   root   operator
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>>>Bob
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>>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.
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>Yes. If you did that, you wouldn't need vfs.usermount, either.
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I ran startx as root and had no problem as you stated.

Thanks for your assistance and patience.

Bob

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