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i recently installed slackware 9.1 [trashed redhat fedora for good]
it is AWESOME !!!!!!!!
browsers have come preinstalled with java, shockwave plugins
gxine mozilla netscape plugins lets me view windows media, quicktime contents
dvd, mp3 players works too with alsa
Dropline gnome is very pleasing to eye ... refreshing
since slackware is somewhat different then redhat/mandrake/suse stuff
1) i need to know how to make the secondary cd drive [which is a cd-rewritable drive] to mount. i did some research and some where i found that i need to add a line in /etc/fstab with stuff like
noauto,user,ro 0 0
i did all that
but it is not recognizing my secondary cd-rw drive
2) with root i am able to access my fat32 paritition to play my collection of mp3 and video songs
but with a normal user i can see fat32
/fat
but it i can not access anything in there ...
through nautilus tree view of filesystem hierarchy i can see /fat but it shows empty
nautilus it self shows the contents .. but i can not access the folders
through xmms " play directory " and i can see fat partition but no ' + ' sign to expand and see the folders containing the mp3 and videos.
as a normal i can not run mozilla browser
though netscape is working /user/local/netscape
/usr/bin/mozilla is not working under normal user
fat32 and mozilla is accessible through root but not normal user
and secondary optical drive ... my cd-rw is not even showing
Originally posted by hasan
/dev/hdb5 /fat vfat defaults 1 0
Replace the defaults with noauto,user,users,umask=000
As for the mozilla:
as root, do which mozilla
check whether the same thing
gives the same result as user.
If it does, but mozilla doesn't
come up you've probably got
a permission problem.
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