hi!
i have two cdroms attach on the second IDE which seems to be recognized as hdc & hdd, when i login as root, i cannot mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom, as from what i've read this is probably because i have no link on /dev/cdrom to /dev/hdd or /dev/hdc, i havent tried that but i tried last night is

mount /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom

i was able to mount it that way as root, but as a normal user it says mount: only root can do that, i tried inserting this on /etc/fstab

/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom [copied other options from /dev/cdrom, and i also put user on it, like : ro, user....]

i reboot then tried to mount again as normal user the /dev/hdd but still it says mount: only root can do that...


what seems to be the problem sir/mam?


also....

on ls command...on the owner & group properties of the file....can i use chgrp to change the group of a file to many groups? i mean is there something like...chgrp group1 group2 file...

thank you so much =)

Adding option "user" to fstab should be sufficient to allow a normal user to do the mount:
A file can only belong to one group.

FYI, I believe "user" let the user that mounted the device access it while "users" lets all users access the device.

Looking the man page for chgrp, I don't think you can do that.

dennisk

users is about unmounting; from `man mount`:

hi!
thanks for all your post, another question, if i add /dev/hdd on fstab, should i comment out the entry for /dev/cdrom? or it should i leave it as is, and it wouldnt cause any problems? also does slackware works with "softtouch"...dont know but it's just the device connected when you avail a dsl connection here, and it is attach to your lan card, on xp, when i boot it automatically connects to the net, don't know if this also works on slackware, if i ask the isp provider what things should i first look at so that i may know if their dsl would work for slackware? thank you so much again sir/mam...

Thanks for the correction, uselpa!

Dennisk

hi!
mount is working fine last night he9x, i've added another line for /dev/hdd, ive found out that /dev/cdrom is pointing to /dev/hdc, so i made another folder for /dev/hdd, and added another line into fstab, another thing, when using xterm, and when i place a export PS1=\u@\h \$\w at .bash_profile, and when i logged in i get a message like /dev/pts/0 operation not allowed....is this a major error?