[mahlerfan]

Good review! The cd problem was the only one I had with this release of Slackware as well. It even did alot of the configuration automatically. It took awhile to customize the install-- linux packages didn't have a 12.0 set out yet so I had to install all the extras from upstream binaries and source.

The hardest thing was beautifying the fonts in Slackware. But worth it, after following the instructions on the wiki the fonts look as good as they do on windows, and I can use Times New Roman and it will look correct!

Originally Posted by Dapper Dan

Hi techieMoe...

I installed Slackware 12 and ran into this same thing you wrote in your rant...

I agree with you... This is rediculous! Why not just give the user the same remedy I'm about to give...?

They had the same problem in Debian, it's not Slackware related. It's a hal issue.

To grant a user permission to mount and use the cdrom, go into kuser as root, and have user added to groupes "cdrom" and "plugdev." Then the error message goes away and the user can use the cdrom.

Almost, that's only half of it. I had those groups added and still had the problem. The other half is this-- you have to edit /etc/fstab to include users in the mounting of your devices (cdrom, dvd etc). That's why you get that message-- hal looks at fstab and sees that you're not authorized to mount it, so it gives you that lecture and doesn't mount it. So it is as Techiemoe said, it's a permissions issue.

Once I changed /etc/fstab the problem went away.

[Dapper Dan]

Originally Posted by mahlerfan

Almost, that's only half of it. I had those groups added and still had the problem. The other half is this-- you have to edit /etc/fstab to include users in the mounting of your devices (cdrom, dvd etc). That's why you get that message-- hal looks at fstab and sees that you're not authorized to mount it, so it gives you that lecture and doesn't mount it. So it is as Techiemoe said, it's a permissions issue.

Once I changed /etc/fstab the problem went away.

Interesting... All I did was change to those groups and everything is working. I noticed cdrom was commented out in /etc/fstab and I uncommented it which resulted in errors about not having the right permissions. When I re-commented cdrom out, and changed to those groups everything works.

[bidi]

I'm surprised you guys never ran into the permission issue before! Changing fstab to say "user" instead of "owner" has always been the second thing I do after installing Slack (first is creating new user). I've never installed KDE and always mounted from command line, guess that's got something to do with it.

[Dapper Dan]

Originally Posted by bidi

I'm surprised you guys never ran into the permission issue before! Changing fstab to say "user" instead of "owner" has always been the second thing I do after installing Slack (first is creating new user). I've never installed KDE and always mounted from command line, guess that's got something to do with it.

Hi bidi...
Like you, I've always just mounted from the command line, but after a few months with Ubuntu, I've gotten extremely lazy.... Anyway, the issue is rather the obscurity of the error. As Moe pointed out and I concur, the message is just unnecessarily confusing.

[mahlerfan]

Yup I'm the same as you guys, I always manually mounted before. I enjoy automatic mounting now, so I think I'll stick with it.

[cayalee]

hi moe, just wondered if you'd do a review of freespire2.0, seem to remember you only tested a beta and with your current taste for full featured (mp3/wmv support et al) distros i think it'd cut the mustard

[techieMoe]

Originally Posted by cayalee

hi moe, just wondered if you'd do a review of freespire2.0, seem to remember you only tested a beta and with your current taste for full featured (mp3/wmv support et al) distros i think it'd cut the mustard

Yeah, as soon as I get the bandwidth to download it.

[sciontist]

Not bad, its basic but not bad at all, has the blog look to it, which it probably is im just running a little slow forgive me. although don't take it the wrong way it could use some color, you may wanna use or design an abstract and add color to it, you want something to spark the mind of your site viewers. Is the site based off css? I may be able to help with some tips of its okay with you, when ever im around hit me up I always have ideas that come to mind. Here are 2 samps of what I haver done, I never really finished any of them cause cause i was occupied so much Design00 and Design 01<~This I was suppsoed to do for a club but I haven't spoken to those guys in forever so I let the site rot sadly.

[techieMoe]

Originally Posted by sciontist

Not bad, its basic but not bad at all, has the blog look to it, which it probably is im just running a little slow forgive me.

At one time I played with the idea of a blog, but as it is my site is more of just a collection of articles. The design is a product of the CSS template I'm using, which I chose from a whole list of redesign options a few months ago. I don't plan on redesigning it any time soon, as that last redesign was quite a bit of work. Thanks for the critique, though.

[fingal]

Originally Posted by techieMoe

At one time I played with the idea of a blog, but as it is my site is more of just a collection of articles.

Blogs are really hard to keep going. I have one on my Bebo page (which I won't link to from here) and the driver for it is just commenting on YouTube music videos which I post there.

I've found that to make any kind of blog work it has to be themed around something you really love talking about. Even then, I only post to the blog occasionally. The Bebo page was just an experiment, but now it's a way of finding out about new bands and just chatting.