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  From: Ben Kramer <ben@webmedia.com.au>
  To  : Darryl Ross <darryl@bachblue.com.au>
  Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 05:32:43 +0000

Re: mounting cdrom/floppy

found out how to do it...
edit /etc/fstab
/dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             vfat    noauto,user    
0 0
/dev/hdd                /mnt/cdrom              iso9660 noauto,ro,user 
0 0
adding the user option
ben....   :-)

Darryl Ross wrote:
> 
> Change the permissions on /dev/hdb1 or whatever your CDROM is and /dev/fd0
> for your floppy. Just changing /mnt/cdrom doesn't work, as you found out :)
> 
> Dazz
> 
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> 
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> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Ben Kramer <ben@webmedia.com.au>
> To: Darryl Ross <darryl@bachblue.com.au>
> Cc: LinuxSA <linuxsa@linuxsa.org.au>
> Sent: Thursday, 8 April 1999 8:40
> Subject: Re: mounting cdrom/floppy
> 
> >nup-- didnt help
> >[ben@clubman /mnt]$ mount /mnt/cdrom/
> >mount: only root can mount /dev/cdrom on /mnt/cdrom
> >DOH..
> >Ben..... :-)
> >
> >Darryl Ross wrote:
> >>
> >> I just changed the permissions on the directory for the mount to give
> them
> >> read and execute permission. If you want them to be able to write to the
> >> floppy, write permission would probably help too :) Well, that worked on
> my
> >> Slackware machine anyway.
> >>
> >> Dazz

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