Re: Where can I find more information

On Fri, Jan 28, 2005 at 12:01:47AM -0500, [email protected] wrote:
> Hello, 
>  
> My name is Mark.  I recently banished windows and 
> windows-based programs from my (ancient) computer because it 
> is too slow to handle windows XP and all of the attendant 
> programs required to keep it virus and ad-free.  I have 
> installed FreeBSD-5.3-RELEASE on my computer (Intel Pentium 
> II Celeron, 330 MHz, ~500 Mb Ram, Western Digital Hard Disk 
> (40 Gb, Master), Western Digital Hard Disk (6 Gb, Slave), 
> floppy disk (1.44 Mb), IOMega ZIP-Drive (100Mb, IDE), Hitachi 
> CD/DVD-ROM, Memorex CD-RW, Diamond Multimedia Viper v550 
> video card, and a few other ancient goodies).  I am having 
> great difficulty mounting and unmounting floppies, zips, and 
> CDs from my system.

Have a look at my FreeBSD page. There might be some helpfull hints
there: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/freebsd/

Some highlights:
- to mount filesystems as a normal user, the sysctl variable
  vfs.usermount must be set to 1. (you are logged in as a normal user, right?)
- when mounting filesystems, you must be the owner of the mountpoint.
- you need read and write persmissions on the devices where the
  filesystems reside. (see devfs.conf and devfs.rules)

Hope this helps,

Roland
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