On Sun, 2009-10-04 at 15:05 -0500, Gregory P. Ennis wrote: > To All : > > I have not been able to solve this problem with hal. If any of you have > an idea of what to do next I would appreciate it. Thanks to Craig and > Hiisi and Aaron for their dialog. > > I don't like building kludges but I could not figure out how to fix this > problem without a BIG KLUDGE. Here is how I have temporarily solved it > until one of you can help me learn how to fix hal. > > #1. Create subdirectory 'cd' in '/media' so that '/media/cd' is > addressable with protections of <444>. > > #2. Added line item in /etc/fstab of : > /dev/cdrom /media/cd iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0 > > #3. Created a perl script to mount the cd by way of : > '/bin/mount /media/cd' and created a launcher link on the desktop of the > user. > > #4. Created a perl script to unmount the cd by way of : > '/bin/umount /media/cd' and created a launcher link on the desktop to > the user. > > This gives manual control to a user that has never heard of the words > 'mount' and 'umount' ---- I suppose that's easier for you than following my instructions. Craig Craig, Sure appreciate your help, and I thought I did follow your instructions, but I could not get hal to mount the drive. If there are things you think I could do I will give it another try!!! Greg -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
