OK John.Can you copy to a floppy,
I've done everything up to " /then copy your new fstab file to /etc directory./" The only way I could find to change the name of the fstab file to fstab1 was to log on as root. When logged on as root none of my desktop files from my standard session are available. So there is nothing to copy. when I log back on as user I am denied permission to edit the etc file. If I can't manage to do that I guess I'll have to undo the name change to fstab/fstab1. how can I accomplish this crucial step?
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On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 11:43, John Richard Smith wrote:
/OK, Langsley, I think it's time to start dropping supermount, maybe you have the same problem with supermount as me. S0 I would like you to copy this script ,
/dev/hda6 / ext3 defaults 1 1
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda8 /home ext3 defaults 1 2
/dev/scd0 /mnt/scd0 auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,umask=0,exec,codepage=850,ro,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,iocharset=iso8859-15,sync,codepage=850,noauto,umask=0,exec 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win_c vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/win_d vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,umask=0,codepage=850 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/hda7 swap swap defaults 0 0
into a fresh new text file on desktop , do this by moving the cursor over a blank spot on desktop, rightmouse click down to create new - text file, and name it fatab, then move the cursor over the icon of the new fstab textfile and roghtmouse click- down to open with text editor, and choose one, say kwrite , and then sweep the text I have given you here with the mouse cursor and move the cursor over the open fstab text file left mouse click to position, and then press middle mouse button, and all the copyied text will fill out onto the page, then save and exit.
You then have a new fstab file .
Go to /etc directory in konqueror window and rename the existing fstab file fstab1, then copy your new fstab file to /etc directory.
in a terminal , type, mount -a
and see if that gives you a writer
test by putting up something like xcdroast and see if it appears in the device list.
or type in terminal,
cdrecord -scanbus, and see what it says,
John/
Better still copy new fstab to one of those fat32/vfat partitions that you already have a line in your existing fstab, then logon as root, then you should be able to make the necessary change in /etc directory. All this ought to be done as root anyway. you are constructing system files for universal use, not some oddjob user task.
I could get you into a root terminal but then you will have to issue root commands which is more difficult for the newbie. Can you logon as root to a root desktop ?
John
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