On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 12:42:18AM -0700, riki wrote:
> Ok, I've successfully installed gentoo, including setting up kde and 
> gnome.
> 
> However, I'm still having some problems, specifically:
> 
> 1) I can't mount my cdroms or floppies without su-ing to root first. I 
> thought I just needed to change the permission of the /mnt 
> directories--but when I ran chmod, the changes didn't have any effect. 
> I'm sure I'm just missing something simple here.

Check /etc/fstab. The lines for the cdrom and floppy must have the
"user" option, allowing users to mount a file system. Here's mine:

/dev/hdc                /mnt/cdrom      iso9660         noauto,ro,user  0 0
/dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy     vfat            noauto,user     0 0

> 
> 2) I've manually set the settings for my network card. Works great, but 
> every time I reboot it loses track of the default gateway. Once I run 
> "route add -net default gw xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx" it works fine--until I 
> reboot again. How do I fix this?

Check /etc/conf.d/net for this line at the bottom:

# For setting the default gateway
gateway="eth0/192.168.0.1"

Of course your IP might be different.


> Hmm. Those are the two big issues. Sound's not working, but I know from 
> past experience it can be a pain in the butt to set up properly. So 
> I'll wait until I have a good afternoon free before tackling it.

Shouldn't be too hard if it is PCI. ISA card are a little tougher. I
have a builtint ISA card. I was beginning to think it was bad until I
tried the 2.6 kernel with ALSA built in and finally got it too work.

HTH
Mike

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