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Date: Thursday, December 24, 1998 3:50 PM
Subject: [SuSE Linux] Re: mounting floppy and cd in kde desktop

>
>Hi,
>
>On Fri, Dec 25, 1998 at 01:19 +0800, Jayel L. Villamin wrote:
>
>> i created a icons for my floppy and cdrom in the kde desktop. but i
>can't
>> seem to access it. doing a manual mount in the terminal, i get a
>message
>> 'only root can mount'. by the way, i'm using my own account not root.
>please
>> help.
>
>If you want to mount stuff as a user, you have to setup
>/etc/fstab. Add something like
>
>/dev/fd0    /floppy  auto     rw,noauto,user,sync  0  0
>/dev/cdrom  /cdrom   iso9660  ro,noauto,user       0  0
>
>to it (make sure that the directories /floppy and /cdrom exist).
>Then as a user you can mount with `mount /floppy' or `mount
>/cdrom'.

Well, I had to make the floppy line look like:

>/dev/fd0    /floppy  auto     rw,noauto,user,exec,suid 0  0

and I added an exec to the cdrom so I could run programs off it.

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