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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello again. Still no joy on the cdrom and
floppy access issue but some of you asked me to send the fstab info to you to
better understand what's going on. so here it is...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>/dev/hdb1/ ext3 defaults 1 1</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0 </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>/dev/hdb6 /home ext3 defaults 1
2</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>/dev/hdc /mnt cdrom auto</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>user, io charset=iso8859-15, codepage=850,
umask=0,usrquota 0 0 </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>/dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom2 auto user,noatime 0 0
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>user,iocharset=iso8859-15, sync,
codepage=850,umask=0 0 0</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>/dev/hda1 /mnt /windows vfat
iocharset=iso8859-15, codepage=850,umask=0 0 0 </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>none /proc proc defaults 0 0 </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>/dev/hdb5 swap swap defaults 0 0
</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>info: I'm running windows xp on a seperate
hard drive. Linux is on hdd2. Everything works fine in windows so i
find it hard to believe that it could be compatibility. Also some
error messages on bootup that you may be interested in...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>scd0 is "write protected" mounting in read
only mode</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>FD0 is not a valid block device.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Then I get something about "you must specify file
system.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>When Kde is up and running I get an error message
"cdrom is read only, make sure you have access to /dev/cdroms." when I've
opende up /dev/cdroms and try to access the "permissions" I've noticed
that everything is "Greyed out"</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I'm really trying to love Linux but it certainly
doesn't seem to love me.... Hope this helps, many thanks again for your
efforts.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Best Wishes</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Gary Pownall</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>