On Thursday 18 July 2002 20:09, Daniel Bye wrote: > On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 07:15:10AM -0700, Balaji, Pavan wrote: > > By default, cdrom is /dev/acd0c is only mountable by root in FreeBSD. You > > can make it mountable by normal users by changing the /etc/fstab entry to > > users,ro,noauto > > > > /dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 users,ro,noauto 0 > > 0 > > Hmm, just edited my /etc/fstab to look like this, and I get a different > message: > > cd9660: -o users: option not supported
That's what I got when I borrowed the relevent line from my Linux /etc/fstab. Being a hopeless beginner I presumed this was a naive error on my part and discretely forgot to mention it. > However, google brought me this: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#USER-FLOPPY >MOUNT Thanks, but been there, done that (see my original mail). So, what's up? At the moment things look like this? localuser@localhost > uname -a FreeBSD localhost.local 4.6-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE #0: Sun Jul 14 17:14:44 CEST 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/KERNEL_1 i386 (I recompiled the kernel for ext2fs support) root# sysctl -a | fgrep vfs\.usermount vfs.usermount: 1 localuser@localhost > ls -ld /cdrom drwxrwxr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jul 14 18:10 /cdrom localuser@localhost > ls -l /dev/acd0c crw-rw---- 4 root operator 117, 0 Jul 14 18:15 /dev/acd0c localuser@localhost > groups localuser wheel operator localuser@localhost > cat /etc/fstab | fgrep cdrom /dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto,users 0 0 localuser@localhost > mount /cdrom cd9660: -o users: option not supported localuser@localhost > mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0c ~/cdrom localuser@localhost > ls ~/cdrom EULA README RedHat autorun GPL RPM-GPG-KEY TRANS.TBL (well, it was the first one I had to hand ;-) Any ideas? Just wondering... (I may of course be overlooking something). S.Mazerski To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
