Try changing the permissions on /dev/cdrom to read and execute for all. For the floppy chmod 666 /dev/fd0 should do the trick
Jonathan On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > > > > Hallo, > > > > I am trying to change /etc/fstab to allow the user to mount the floppy and > > the cdrom. > > > > The following lines did not help: > > > > /dev/cdrom /cdrom iso9660 defaults,noauto,ro,user 0 0 > > /dev/fd0 /floppy msdos defaults,noauto,user 0 0 > > > > Why not? > > I don't know about the floppy, but for the cdrom you will have to put > the actual device in the file instead of /dev/cdrom, so you'll get > something like > > /dev/hdd /cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noauto 0 0 > > The problem with /dev/cdrom is that it is a symbolic link. If you type > mount /cdrom, it will follow the link, and mount (e.g.) /dev/hdd on > /cdrom. But if you try to unmount it, umount only knows that /dev/hdd > is mounted (doesn't know about /dev/cdrom anymore), and fails. > > Eric Meijer > > -- > E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 > Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 > Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax +31 40 2455054 > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
