Re: [newbie] permissions, kde and msec

[Mike Corbeil]

Dreja Julag wrote:   I finally found the entry in the digest...  This does not quite fit into my problem, really.  If I have Mandrake 7.0-2 installed, I only need to mount the drives, manually, correct? Drew Jackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 20177604 ----- Original Message ----- From: Dreja Julag To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2000 9:42 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] permissions, kde and msec  Does anyone know the orginal subject to this message?  I am wishing to know how to mount my DOS drive as well.  Thanks Drew Jackman [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 20177604  Thank you Stephen, In the mean time I have been using the following work-around:- I removed the /mnt/DOS* and created /c-drive and /d-drive as the DOS mount points. The f/etc/fstab looks like this at the moment:- /dev/hda1 /c-drive vfat rw 0 0 /dev/hda5 /d-drive vfat rw 0 0 /dev/hdb1 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/hdb2 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/hdb3 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2 /dev/hdb5 /home ext2 defaults 1 2 /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount fs=iso9660,dev=/dev/cdrom 0 0 With this configuration I have full ccess everything on the DOS partitions. I followed what I had done with doslinux. Also KDE does not lock up anymore when I use kfm to look in /mnt.   I don't know what your problem was, but this should be /dev/hda1 /mnt/c: vfat noauto,rw 0 0 /dev/hda5 /mnt/d: vfat noauto,rw 0 0 Leaving out the noauto means to mount during the boot process and you don't want Linux to mount your dos partitions during the boot  process.  During the boot process, all you want Linux to automatically mount and check are your Linux configuration partitions. The following are probably also wrong /mnt/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount These should be /dev/floppy /mnt/floppy supermount fs=vfat,dev=/dev/fd0 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount or /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ... /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom ... I've read that some people are having problems because of supermount and this could be changed to be also noauto. Your  fstab looks kind of messed up.  I don't know what /dev/pts is for, and haven't dealt with networking, however you might want to redo your fstab using a tool, such as linuxconf or fsconf.  There's an alternative from Mandrake, but I don't know the name. dos partitions, floppy and cdrom should not be automatically mounted during the boot process.  If you don't have a writable cdrom drive, then you want to specify read-only. Why you don't have a 0 0 for the cdrom, I'm not sure.  Perhaps these are the defaults, but they're present in my fstab; although, I'm basing this on rh 5.2 or 5.1 (probably haven't updated the fstab since 5.1 packages were in place). Try the configuration tools.  You can at least go through the gui tool to check what all of the parameter values. mike