Hai all,

Is it normal after gentoo installation we have to mount the cdrom or even thumbdrive manually? Actually i'm still having problem until now, i have grouped my user account into cdrom,cdrw,usb,plugdev but i cant automount my cdrom. But if i mount it manually there is no problem at all.

if i type these commands:
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,ro,user 0 0

the output will be:
bash: /dev/cdrom Permission denied

And also even if type these commands:
/dev/cdrom

the output will be still the same.

I'm out of idea how to make it works. And i more question how do i mount my thumbdrive?



Thank you.

Regards,
Norman



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Am Mittwoch, 16. Juli 2008 schrieb Norman Hakim:

> Is it normal after gentoo installation we have to mount the cdrom or even
> thumbdrive manually? Actually i'm still having problem until now, i have
> grouped my user account into cdrom,cdrw,usb,plugdev but i cant automount my
> cdrom. But if i mount it manually there is no problem at all.

How do you do this, then?

> if i type these commands:
> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,ro,user 0 0

This is not a command, it's a line which should be put into /etc/fstab.

> the output will be:
> bash: /dev/cdrom Permission denied

Sure, see above.

> And also even if type these commands:
> /dev/cdrom

dito.

> the output will be still the same.

Yes, see above. First put the line above into /etc/fstab, then
type "mount /mnt/cdrom".

> I'm out of idea how to make it works. And i more question how do i mount my
> thumbdrive?

Just the same. Replace "cdrom" with whatever matches your thumbdrive, examine
output of "dmesg" a few seconds after plugging it in.

HTH...

Dirk

NORMAN HAKIM YAHYA


--- On Wed, 7/16/08, Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs@online.de> wrote:

> From: Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs@online.de>
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting problem
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Date: Wednesday, July 16, 2008, 1:38 AM
> Am Mittwoch, 16. Juli 2008 schrieb Norman Hakim:
>
> > Is it normal after gentoo installation we have to
> mount the cdrom or even
> > thumbdrive manually? Actually i'm still having
> problem until now, i have
> > grouped my user account into cdrom,cdrw,usb,plugdev
> but i cant automount my
> > cdrom. But if i mount it manually there is no problem
> at all.
>
> How do you do this, then?
>
> > if i type these commands:
> > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,ro,user 0 0
>
> This is not a command, it's a line which should be put
> into /etc/fstab.
>
> > the output will be:
> > bash: /dev/cdrom Permission denied
>
> Sure, see above.
>
> > And also even if type these commands:
> > /dev/cdrom
>
> dito.
>
> > the output will be still the same.
>
> Yes, see above. First put the line above into /etc/fstab,
> then
> type "mount /mnt/cdrom".
>
> > I'm out of idea how to make it works. And i more
> question how do i mount my
> > thumbdrive?
>
> Just the same. Replace "cdrom" with whatever
> matches your thumbdrive, examine
> output of "dmesg" a few seconds after plugging it
> in.
>
> HTH...
>
> Dirk


Dear Dirk,

ok, but then how do i put tose lines into /etc/fstab? Actually i'm a newbie to gentoo linux.


Regards,
Norman



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On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:09:24AM -0700, Norman Hakim wrote:
>
>
> NORMAN HAKIM YAHYA
>
>
> --- On Wed, 7/16/08, Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs@online.de> wrote:
>
> > From: Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs@online.de>
> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting problem
> > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> > Date: Wednesday, July 16, 2008, 1:38 AM
> > Am Mittwoch, 16. Juli 2008 schrieb Norman Hakim:
> >
> > > Is it normal after gentoo installation we have to
> > mount the cdrom or even
> > > thumbdrive manually? Actually i'm still having
> > problem until now, i have
> > > grouped my user account into cdrom,cdrw,usb,plugdev
> > but i cant automount my
> > > cdrom. But if i mount it manually there is no problem
> > at all.
> >
> > How do you do this, then?
> >
> > > if i type these commands:
> > > /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,ro,user 0 0
> >
> > This is not a command, it's a line which should be put
> > into /etc/fstab.
> >
> > > the output will be:
> > > bash: /dev/cdrom Permission denied
> >
> > Sure, see above.
> >
> > > And also even if type these commands:
> > > /dev/cdrom
> >
> > dito.
> >
> > > the output will be still the same.
> >
> > Yes, see above. First put the line above into /etc/fstab,
> > then
> > type "mount /mnt/cdrom".
> >
> > > I'm out of idea how to make it works. And i more
> > question how do i mount my
> > > thumbdrive?
> >
> > Just the same. Replace "cdrom" with whatever
> > matches your thumbdrive, examine
> > output of "dmesg" a few seconds after plugging it
> > in.
> >
> > HTH...
> >
> > Dirk
>
>
> Dear Dirk,
>
> ok, but then how do i put tose lines into /etc/fstab? Actually i'm a newbie to gentoo linux.
>
>
> Regards,
> Norman
>
>
>
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echo "/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,ro,user 0 0" >> /etc/fstab
or you could fire up your favorite editor.

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Am Mittwoch, 16. Juli 2008 schrieb Norman Hakim:

> ok, but then how do i put tose lines into /etc/fstab?

By using your favorite text editor. Or with the "echo" command:

echo "/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,ro,user 0 0" >>/etc/fstab

This will append the line to the file, but be careful, it must be ">>". If you
miss one and type ">" the file will be overwritten and the previous contents
are lost.

> Actually i'm a newbie to gentoo linux.

In this case, it may be a good idea to read through
http://www.tldp.org/LDP/intro-linux/html/index.html

and, since you did a full quote when replying to my mail, reading
http://learn.to/quote would also be nice.

HTH...

Dirk

On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:09:24 -0700 (PDT), Norman Hakim wrote:

> ok, but then how do i put tose lines into /etc/fstab? Actually i'm a
> newbie to gentoo linux.

You have already edited /etc/fstab during installation, the procedure is
exactly the same.

nano -w /etc/fstab

Which desktop are you using? KDE handles this automatically, for anything
else you should install ivman.


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> Which desktop are you using? KDE handles this
> automatically, for anything
> else you should install ivman.
>

I'm using GDM.

To Dirk,

I will read the 2 links that u had given and any problems i will let you know.

Thank you.

Regards,
Norman



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