Problem with mounting drives

**Hemsworth** · 04-20-2005

I've tried to mount my floppy & DVD drives onto my Slackware 10.1 system but it keeps saying permission denied, even though I'm logged in as Root. Can anybody help?

**retired1af** · 04-20-2005

Please list the contents of /etc/fstab.

**genesus** · 04-20-2005

you can also "chmod 777 /dev/fd0" for example, replacing fd0 with your floppy and cdrom drives respectively, that way permissions will be granted for all users to mount these devs

**Hemsworth** · 04-21-2005

Ah, thankyou. From what I've been able to gather my other accounts are working fine.

**Hemsworth** · 04-25-2005

Originally Posted by retired1af

Please list the contents of /etc/fstab.

Thats another slight problem. When it says it dosen't exist even though when I "ls etc" it still shows up. Very strange. It also says that I am still not allowed access to /dev/cdrom even after chmod777 logged in as root. But I'm planning on saying balls to it for the moment & waiting until I've updated my machine before I try wreswtling with the problem, just incase its linked to hardware.

**Krendoshazin** · 04-25-2005

in fstab, change owner to user, for example

Code:

/dev/cdrom       /mnt/cdrom       iso9660     noauto,user,ro   0   0

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