After installing suse 9.2 I notice I have no icons on my desktop for the floppy nor the dvd drive.

When I open Firefox and try to import my favorites from a floppy I get a message telling me that "You don't have the necessary premissions to view this file"

BAWwwwwwwwwwwwww, It's my file...

I think this is nice easy fix doing that command thing... chmod something???

what I get when I typed mount /mnt/floppy

linux:/home/doug # mount /mnt/floppy

mount: can't find /mnt/floppy in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab

linux:/home/doug #

Any idea on what I should do now. Oh by the way I'm getting this from a Redhat 9 bible I have hanging around here.

I figured it should have some good info in it.


thanks for you continued support in my formulative years as a "Newbie Linuxer"

This is a copy of the etc/fstab file. What can I change in here to make my dvd and floppy usable for me as a normal user?

/dev/hdb3 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/hdb1 /windows/C ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hdb2 swap swap pri=42 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
/dev/dvdrecorder /media/dvdrecorder subfs fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0

devices are defined in /media/floppy, or /media/dvd or /media/cdrecorder, ....
check if thoses objects are present ?
Cxy.

Yes they are and get this. I went into my computer and made a link out on my desktop to the DVD and floppy and changed the icons to the DVD and floppy. I can access them now.

EXCEPT my one floppy that has my bookmarks on it from fedora install and firefox.... hmmm.

Hey, Success!!! Since I could access other floppies and not this one that had my bookmarks. I went to my wifes computer and saved my bookmarks into her firefox browser.
Then I opened a dos prompt and format A:

Then when finished I exported my favs back to the floppy and took it to my computer where I then imported them to my browser.

Worked great.

NOW,,, Should I go back into my computer as root and go to the user accounts and take the check mark out of Floppy and CD ROM in the groups under my log in?