Hi Fred, You were right about adding /cdrom to fbtab. I had added /dev/cd0a, so it didn't work.
I'm in the operators group, so a combination of the two means I can now mount cd/dvd and watch dvds in Xine. Thanks everyone for you assistance. Regards, Laurence. On 12 November 2013 23:47, Fred <open...@crowsons.com> wrote: > On 11/12/13 20:48, Laurence Rochfort wrote: >> >> Thanks Fred, >> >> /cdrom is the mount point, so no I don't think it should be a symlink. >> >> The command is: >> >> $ mount /dev/cd0a /cdrom >> mount_cd9660: /dev/cd0a on /cdrom: Operation not permitted > > > Hi Laurence, > > You are right it should just be a node so not a symlink. > > The issue is with root owning /cdrom - but if you add /cdrom entry to fbtab: > > port:fred ~> tail -2 /etc/fbtab > #/dev/ttyC0 0600 /dev/fd0 > /dev/ttyC0 0600 /cdrom > > Then the user who logs in can then mount /cdrom > > port:fred ~> mount -tcd9660 /dev/cd0a /cdrom > port:fred ~> mount > /dev/sd0a on / type ffs (local) > /dev/sd0k on /home type ffs (local, nodev, nosuid) > /dev/sd0d on /tmp type ffs (local, nodev, nosuid) > /dev/sd0f on /usr type ffs (local, nodev) > /dev/sd0g on /usr/X11R6 type ffs (local, nodev) > /dev/sd0h on /usr/local type ffs (local, nodev) > /dev/sd0j on /usr/obj type ffs (local, nodev, nosuid) > /dev/sd0i on /usr/src type ffs (local, nodev, nosuid) > /dev/sd0e on /var type ffs (local, nodev, nosuid) > /dev/sd2i on /mnt/usbpen type msdos (local) > /dev/cd0a on /cdrom type cd9660 (local, nodev, nosuid, read-only) > > I had to read mount(8) and fbtab(5) to work it out... > > hth > > Fred
