This should be another no brainer. How can I get someone other than root access to mount like the floppy drive or SMB shares? Oh, and as a side note, what packages do I need to recompile the kernel. My notebook doesn't have much hard drive space and I stripped out much of the programming and compiling packages.
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[This message has been edited by WCFJ (edited 31 January 2001).]
nalleberg
01-31-2001, 11:55 AM
In your /etc/fstab, the different filesystems are initiated and mounted, if told so.
You will find a line telling the system about the floppy.
Mine looks like this:
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat noauto,user,rw 0 0
In the first column I tell the system what device I'm talking about, the second gives the mount point (NB! this folder has to exist on your system), then the default filsystem type gets specified. Now for the next column, I'm telling the system that I do not want the filesystem to mount at boot-time, that (read extra carefully now) users can access this device and that I want this device to mount as read/write.
Now, for the latter digits, I can't seem to remember what they were for. I seem to remember that they were for tests of some kind, but I'm not sure.
Looked it up in "Running Linux", but those options might be optional. But I do remember reading that they skould be 0 0 for floppys - maybe somone other can explain that part for you?
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