Topic: Permission denied???

[Jan]

How do i access the floppy and cd-rom drive in E-Smith?
when i type  /dev/sda  i get a "permission denied" ,  the cd drive is a SCSI drive if that makes any diff.

[Orville Carter]

Jan,
Try the following after root login:
# mount /mnt/floppy
# mount /mnt/cdrom

This will mount the cd and floppy. To access either just do the following:
# cd /mnt/cdrom
This will place you in the cdrom. Please avoid /dev/"anything".
# ls
This will show the cdrom content. REM: You must use the umount command before ejecting cd rom's.
# umount /mnt/cdrom


# cd /mnt/floppy
You will access the floppy.
# ls
This will give a directory list on floppy disk. Use the umount command before changing floppy disks.

[Jan]

Thanks  Orville,  that cleared it up for me, now i finaly got the E-Smith to ust the 2nd cpu   :
e-smith server and gateway release 4.0 (based on Red Hat Linux release 6.1)
Kernel 2.2.16-3smp on a 2-processor i586

I still have a long way to go , getting to know Linux, nice to know that i can find help here.

Jan

[Orville Carter]

Jan wrote:

> Thanks  Orville,  that cleared it up for me, now i finaly got
> the E-Smith to ust the 2nd cpu   : e-smith server and
> gateway release 4.0 (based on Red Hat Linux release 6.1) Kernel
> 2.2.16-3smp on a 2-processor i586
>
> I still have a long way to go , getting to know Linux, nice to
> know that i can find help here.
>
> Jan

Jan,
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