--- Flavio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2006/11/8, Brock, Anthony - NET <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Flavio, > > > > First, please stop posting in HTML. It is challenging for some software > > to deal with in a safe a proper manner. > > Ok, I'm sorry. I'm using gmail, I just turned off HTML mode. > > > > > Second, do you have write permissions on the device in question? In > > other words, assuming that you're running the UML instance as user > > 'myuml', > > I always run uml as user, on my host system. In other words I start my > UML session > as user... But, perhaps you want to know if I'm logging in as user in > my UML instance, don't you? > The answer is: NO, I always log in as root. > > >do you see something similar to the following on the host: > > > > $ ls -lA /dev/sdc > > brw-rw---- 1 myuml disk 8, 32 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sdc > > $ > > > I've no /dev/sdc on my /dev host directory. >
Flavio: You misunderstood what Anthony was saying. Let's say that when you insert your usb drive in the host system, it gets assigned the device node /dev/sdc, which you need to check by running the "dmesg" command on the host after you insert the usb drive. Let's also say that /dev/sdc is owned by the root user on the host, which you can check by running "ls -la /dev/sdc" on the host. Then let's say you run your uml instance from the user account "umluser" on the host. Then it makes sense that you wouldn't be able to "fdisk /dev/ubdc" or mount any of the partitions like /dev/ubdc1 inside the uml instance since the uml kernel doesn't have the necessary permissions to do so (it doesn't have read or write access to /dev/sdc). One way to solve this problem is to change ownership of /dev/hdc (after inserting the usb drive) on the host and before booting the uml instance with a chown like this: chown umluser /dev/sdc At this point you should be able to run fdisk and mount from within the uml to access your usb drive. Chris Marshall ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
