> HI and thanks for reading my message.  I just installed Redhat v4.1 kernel
 > 2.0.27.  I have been playing around and am having problems mounting my
 > floppy as a user.  Now I have been playing with it for a while and have
 > learned it will allow to umount as a user but not mount.  I might note
 > it does not matter the format.  Now I solved this with the cdrom but have
 > been unable to do so with the floppy.
 WH> I think only root is allowed to mount/unmount.
Thanks for your feedback.  I found how to do it.  Took me a while and part
of the problem is the Redhat file system manager.  To get around it I had
to manually edit the /etc/fstab.
I did "chmod 4555 mount" first.
Then I did an edit on the fstab to show:
/dev/fd0    /mnt/fdfat    msdos   noauto,rw,user 0 0
/dev/fd0    /mnt/fdext2   ext2    noauto,rw,user 0 0
I then created these two directories in the /mnt directory and rebooted.
I don't know if I had to reboot but I did, I don't think you have to.
Now I can mount both fat and ext2 floppies in their respective mount
points.  If the write protect tab is on it will give you an error that it
is mounting the file system as read only.
The problem with the Redhat file system manager is it only wants to see
/dev/fd0 once in the fstab.  So if I start the package manager it will
delete the bottom entry without even asking.  I guess I will make a backup
and only make my entries via an editor.
 > And last, how hard is it to get ppp to connect with an ISP?  I can look at
 > the process and see the deamon is running.  The next thing I need to do is
 > figure out how to set it up to connect.  Once I can do that I can pull
 > down files directly to the machine instead of this one and trying to
 > figure out how to get them to the other.
 WH> I tried several differant ppp howtos until I got a file from a local
 WH> guru that is easy to run and compile.  It is 'qadliw2.tgz'.  You only
 WH> need enter your ISP name, the addresses xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx and tel number.
 WH> And username and password on the ISP.  It then links up when you do
 WH> 'ppp on' and hangs up with 'ppp off'. It had only one bug in that it
 WH> compiled the 'ppp' into wrong dir. but that is easy to move to
 WH> /usr/sbin. I have that available for download from my BBS, number
 WH> below, but I do not support freq yet.  It is in my pub/linux dir. and
 WH> only 7k in size. 
I will keep this in mind.  I have only been playing with this for a short
while and want to see what I can learn first.  I have been sick and short
on time and haven't done much.  I started four day work week this week so
I hope to spend more time with Linux.
Thanks,
Doug
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