[NTLUG:Discuss] USB hard drive will not mount in openSUSE 11,0

[Jeanne Smith]

Hello All,
My husband and I are tent-making missionaries living in Europe. Since my German is not so good I thought I might need a english LUG and since I lived 23 yrs in Dallas I decided I might understand Texan better then German at the moment.

I am a little lost. Last month my laptop was fried by an electrical problem in our flat. I could not afford a new one and someone gave me an old desktop without a OS. I decided having been Windoz based all my life to try Linux. I got a magazine that had the disk for OpenSUSE 11 with all the instructions in it.T
The biggest challenge is that I can not write to my external USB harddrive. First of all I did not know I had to "mount" it. So I plugged it in and I believe the first time it automounted. Then I unplugged it to use it with another computer (I had no idea I had to unmount it) and when I plugged it back in I could only read the files. I could not save new files. When I try to save it either says KDE media manager is not on OR it crashes. I somehow managed to find KDE media manager and enable it, but now it says "mount:only root can mount /dev/sdb1/ on /media/IOMEGA_HDD.

I also have many other small problems with software like Kaffiene that I do not have any idea how to resolve.

I don't know enough about Linux to know how to troubleshoot it. Can anyone help a blonde thats new at Linux? Or maybe blondes should not play with Linux ;-)

P.S. Please DON'T tell me to read the help files. If I had not ALREADY done that I would not be posting!

Blessings,
Jeanne Smith
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