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On Monday 03 September 2001 8:09 pm, Erik Jakobsen wrote:
Right click on desktop and then select Create new->CD-Rom device or Floppy device. Then change the icon on the General tab and select the device from the drop-down list under Device. You will then have to add the mount point: /media/zip (for SuSE 7.2) and select a suitable unmounted icon. Zip drives often use the 4th partition, e.g. /dev/sdb4 (for SCSI).
Thank you Martin. But only the root has permission. How do I change that ?.
First check that the files on the Zip disk weren't created by root; this will prevent you from entering /media/zip. If the files are owned by root use chown (chown OWNER:GROUP *) to change them (using su root). Then retry.
Is your drive a SCSI device on /dev/sdb4? I used this as an example. You can get the information for your system from /etc/fstab or the KDE Control Centre, e.g.:
/dev/sdb4 /media/zip auto noauto,user 0 0
I would have thought that permissions for the following files/directories are already set as follows.
mw290364@lagothrix:~ > su root Password: root@lagothrix:/media > chmod 660 /dev/sdb4 root@lagothrix:/media > chmod 755 /media/zip
Here is my /etc/fstab file:
/dev/hda7 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda5 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2 # /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/sr0 /media/cdrecorder auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0 /dev/dvd /media/dvd auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda1 /windows/C vfat noauto,user 0 0 /dev/hda6 swap swap pri=42 0 0
/dev/sda4 /zip vfat noauto 0 0 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
It seems that your SCSI Zip drive is mounted as /zip and not /media/zip. Did you add the entry to /etc/fstab? Either change the desktop icon to mount /zip or create /media/zip. I suggest that your fstab reflects my entry as this is follows the latest standards. M
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It seems that your SCSI Zip drive is mounted as /zip and not /media/zip. Did you add the entry t o /etc/fstab? Either change the desktop icon to mount /zip or create /media/zip. I suggest that your fstab reflects my entry as this is follows the latest standards.
Martin !!. All is working fine now with my ZIP drive. I thank you very much with your help.
M
-- Mvh/Best regards/Vy73 de OZ4KK Erik Jakobsen - erik@urbakken.dk
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Martin Webster