Hi
I wonder if any of you gentlemen or ladies can help.
I'm a new user and by new I mean new. I installed Mandrake 9 on Friday (14th Feb 2003), after weeks of having nothing but problems frow my Windows system.
So far (Only two days I know) I've had no problems, except one.
I seem unable to access my floppy disk or either of my two CDROM drives, I know their there, I formatted a floppy disk and saved some files there.
On trying to retrieve them i was told I "Do not have permission to access the files" or something along those lines.
On opening the Home directory and going through the files to arrive at the /mnt folder, I was again told that I had not the relevent permission to access my files, looking at the floppy properties, I saw the 'owner' and 'group' listed at "root"
Logging in as root, giving the password I entered at install, I was told again .......well you get the idea.
Any help would be greatly appreciated as I need to edit the file and do not wish to re type the whole thing.
If it helps my system is a Packard Bell Club 600 with a Celeron 600hz CPU, 1 DVD/CDROM, 1 CD writer, 128mb ram, 13GB HHD, solely for Linux. On board graphica and sound.
Alistair
On trying to retrieve them i was told I "Do not have permission to access the files" or something along those lines.
could you give us a listing of the output of ls -l in your /mnt folder? Also, perhaps the relevant lines in your /etc/fstab file as well.
You may wish to research for supermount- IIRC Mandrake uses this to mount your floppy drive and cdrom automagically when you insert the relevant media. I had a similar problem with Mandrake 8 and had to disable supermount (that didn't actually work for me, although it did work for some people).
Ricardo
could you give us a listing of the output of ls -l in your /mnt folder?
drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Feb 14 15:36 CDROM/ drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Feb 14 15:36 CDROM2/ drwx-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 14 14:41 disk/ drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Feb 14 15:36 floppy/
Also, perhaps the relevant lines in your /etc/fstab file as well.
/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults 1 1 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /dev/hda6 /home ext3 defaults 1 2 none /mnt/cdrom supermount dev=/dev/hdc,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/cdrom2 supermount dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,ro,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /mnt/floppy supermount dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
Hope it helps
Alistair
On Sunday 16 Feb 2003 3:52 pm, ALISTAIR MACGREGOR wrote:
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That is essentially the same as I get with the mandrake 9 I've playing around with on my box ATM, which works OK.
Are you trying to mount through a GUI or from a console? If the former try 'mount /mnt/cdrom' in a console and see what happens.
Are you using mandrake 9.0 or one of the recent 9.1 betas? Which desktop?
I have 9.0 using kde 3.0 on a laptop and there is an icon on the desktop for removeable drives - allows me to access CDs with no problem. May not be like that for you as Mandrake can be inconsistent (although the trade-offs are worth it to me).
Syd
On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 20:04, Syd Hancock wrote:
Thanks for all the help. To answer this question, it's Mandrake 9.0 (I think). Running KDE 3, there is a small disk Icon, however that open a Konquer page and my cd and floppy icons, all of which still say I can't access them. This is b****y annoying as I know the file I want is on the floppy as I saved it there on Sat. night.
Alistair
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