Re: [SLE] problems Mounting windows D: as normal user
I had to reinstall 8.1 due to a corruption in windows 2000 thanks to visual studio .net and a service pack install, and now my D: drive can't be mounted as a normal user.(.. the drive is fine, in windows and as root) The icon is on the desktop, when I click on it nothing is in it. The entry is in fstab. i tried to set the setuid bit, but only seem to be able to change it for the mount point not the drive in question. how do I change the permissions for a mounted drive? When i umount it i think I'm just effecting the mount point. this is the entry from fstab /dev/hda5 /windows/D vfat defaults 0 0 I had it mount through the install choice, or the partitioner. I'm not sure if this has anything to do with it though. Thanks for any help offered. franklin
Hi all, What I am about to suggest is a huge waste of time. The binaries that ship in SL installation CDs/FTP trees, are compiled for 386, aren't they? So obviously these binaries depend on the features of a x386 processor. [Do people at SuSE compile the whole thing from sources on i386 machines? To create binary RPMs?] And obviously these binaries would be missing if a P-IV has something to offer them. It may not be all that useful for command find/top etc as to on/for which CPU were these compiled and for which CPU would they run, but it becomes really important for me - as I have enough stuff compiled over my P-III [some multimedia stuff, including mplayer and some other games too] and now I am thinking of upgrading. Tips are invited for:- 1. Ideas about compiling my own programs for my system. 2. I do not know what source rpms are. I have dealth with tar always. 3. How much gain, does list think, shall come my way if I tried it? For utilities which are used a lot? Freuently used commands? Rohit -- (+91-22-692) 2101 D2, floor-3, Chand : SE : TLSI : 3578 SuSE 8.0 2.4-18-4GB on i686 : sendmail-8.9.3-42 : pine-4.44-121 rohit.sharma@iitbombay.org [maximus_two@yahoo.com] 9821394599@bplmobile.com ********************************************************* Disclaimer This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this message, or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. ********************************************************* Visit us at http://www.mahindrabt.com
Hi If you are interested in a complete recompiled system from bottom up I suggest you take a look at the gentoo distribution which is just that. http://www.gentoo.org They use an apt like utility to download the sourcecode and compile it for your specific computer... The downside is they don't have a nice GUI install system yet - you have to configure and install the initial system from a command line. I found a review somewhere where the author describes a notice able speed enhancement (on a PIII 1400) but he didn't give any figures.. /Christian On Monday 21 October 2002 12:55, Rohit wrote:
Hi all,
What I am about to suggest is a huge waste of time.
The binaries that ship in SL installation CDs/FTP trees, are compiled for 386, aren't they? So obviously these binaries depend on the features of a x386 processor. [Do people at SuSE compile the whole thing from sources on i386 machines? To create binary RPMs?] And obviously these binaries would be missing if a P-IV has something to offer them.
It may not be all that useful for command find/top etc as to on/for which CPU were these compiled and for which CPU would they run, but it becomes really important for me - as I have enough stuff compiled over my P-III [some multimedia stuff, including mplayer and some other games too] and now I am thinking of upgrading.
Tips are invited for:-
1. Ideas about compiling my own programs for my system. 2. I do not know what source rpms are. I have dealth with tar always. 3. How much gain, does list think, shall come my way if I tried it? For utilities which are used a lot? Freuently used commands?
Rohit
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On Monday 21 October 2002 11:55, Rohit wrote:
Hi all,
What I am about to suggest is a huge waste of time.
Great! Let us know when you've finished ... Seriously though, have a look at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org, which walks through lots of stuff on compiling your own distro. -- Fergus Wilde Chetham's Library Long Millgate Manchester M3 1SB Tel: +44 161 834 7961 Fax: +44 161 839 5797 http://www.chethams.org.uk
The 02.10.21 at 14:15, Fergus Wilde wrote:
On Monday 21 October 2002 11:55, Rohit wrote:
Hi all,
What I am about to suggest is a huge waste of time.
Great! Let us know when you've finished ...
Seriously though, have a look at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org, which walks through lots of stuff on compiling your own distro.
As suse provides the sources rpms, is there an _easy_ way to recompile them all, generating the new binary rpms? With the same configuration as the original, except compiled for the real or given cpu of the target. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
Franklin Maurer:
how do I change the permissions for a mounted drive?
this is the entry from fstab
/dev/hda5 /windows/D vfat defaults 0 0
Replace 'defaults' with 'umask=000'. I got this info from the SDB at /usr/share/doc/sdb/en/html/kfr_18.html and it worked for me. SH
On 20 Oct 2002, Franklin Maurer wrote:
I had to reinstall 8.1 due to a corruption in windows 2000 thanks to visual studio .net and a service pack install, and now my D: drive can't be mounted as a normal user.(.. the drive is fine, in windows and as root)
Here's the corresponding line from my own fstab: /dev/hda2 /dos vfat noauto,user,rw,uid=228,gid=100,umask=0 0 0 Check also that the mount point has mode 755; it's OK if it's owned by root. If the mode is 700 all kinds of mysterious stuff can happen. With those options in fstab, the non-root user can mount and dismount the vfat filesystem. James F. Carter Voice 310 825 2897 FAX 310 206 6673 UCLA-Mathnet; 6115 MSA; 405 Hilgard Ave.; Los Angeles, CA, USA 90095-1555 Email: jimc@math.ucla.edu http://www.math.ucla.edu/~jimc (q.v. for PGP key)
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