i have just installed slackware linux and configured the system with the xf86config command.
i have also added in /etc/fstab file all the devices, but when i am logged not as root but as a normal user, if i try to mount, for example, floppy drive, i get an error message like this:

only root can mount /dev/fd0 on /mnt/floppy

i have tried to change permissions of the mount directories (/mnt/floppy, for example), but nothing changes...
i include also my fstab file here:

/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda6 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrw iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0


if anyone has suggesions to resolve my problem, please, reply to this post.

thank you.

Try dropping the device off the command. When you have fstab entries for a device, there is no need to supply the name of the device when you mount it, only root can directly mount that way, as it's telling you. mtab will already contain them. Like so:

mount /mnt/floppy
mount /mnt/cdrom
mount /mnt/cdrw

also writing

mount /mnt/floppy
mount /mnt/cdrom
mount /mnt/cdrw

i get the same error...

/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0

the owner keyword says that only the device owner can mount it, try

/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,user 0 0

yeah! thank you now everything works!

cya!