On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 03:42:01PM +0100, Thomas Guettler wrote: > > The whole system runs just fine > > but I can´t mount my floppy or cd. > > If you want to mount as normal user, check the permissions of the > devices (/dev/fd0) you need to be in the appropriate group (floppy). no you don't, permissions of the device have nothing whatsoever to do with mounting, you would only need direct permission to the device if you want to format it or run mkfs on it (or play audio cds). instead check /etc/fstab to see if the proper line exists: for cdrom: /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,nodev,nosuid,user,noauto,ro 0 0 usually /dev/cdrom is a symlink to the real cdrom device, say /dev/scd0 for floppy: /dev/fd0 /floppy ext2 defaults,nodev,nosuid,user,noauto 0 0 nodev,nosuid are supposed to be implyed for `user' but im just paranoid ;-) with these fstab entries a `mount /cdrom' or `mount /floppy' should mount the appropriate devices. note that `auto' might be a more desirable filesystem type for floppy, cdroms are rarely anything but iso9660 so auto does not do much good there. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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