Re: more important problem

[Wesley Leonard <marshall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually, you should have entered "linux single" at the LILO prompt.  Minor
miscommunication.

As long as everybody has read and execute permission on /mnt/cdrom everything
should be fine.  Could you include a copy of the fstab?  It's generally good to
provide as much info as possible when making inquiries to the list.

here's an example fstab file:

/dev/hda6               /                       ext2    defaults        1 1
/dev/hda1               /boot                   ext2    defaults        1 2
/dev/hda5               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              iso9660 noauto,ro,user  0 0
none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0


For strange things man is great.  If you man fstab and do a search ( / ) for
user you'll find interesting stuff.

Alan DeJong wrote:

> >
> > If you destroyed you root user your in for real fun.  You need to enter
> "single" at
> > the lilo
> > prompt when you turn the machine on,
>
> That didnt work, it said something like unknow name or something... but
> anyway, i installed linux again, and i am up and running again.  No problem.
> My next question is, how do i change the permissions on "mount" so that the
> user group can use them.. right now it says only root can use it.  I went
> into fstab and put in "user" on the cdrom line, but it still doesnt work,
> and it says
> -rwsr-xr-x   1 root      root
> when i type ls -l mount..
> how do i change it so my user "alan" in "group" can use it?
>
> thank you,
> -alan

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