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

[Gilbert Morrow]

Most USB devices mount and unmount as you said automatically , old days had
to mount and unmount .
Is this KDE 3.x.x or 4.x.x ? Did you try just rebooting ?
SuSE has a great forum for answers , go to www.forum.opensuse.org .
Might want to look at "permission" and see if it is "user"or "owner" .


On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 2:54 AM, Jeanne Smith <
godsgirl at healingcommunities.org> wrote:

>
>
> 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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