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

[Jeanne Smith]

Hello All,
Thanks for the reply.  I have no idea if I am using KDE 3 or 4.  I think its 4.  I do know that I am a user (although I am the only one on the computer) and not an owner.  I can not change my permissions.

LOL about the forum they told me to go to a user group.
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> Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:07:37 -0500
> From: "Gilbert Morrow" 
> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] USB hard drive will not mount in openSUSE
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> 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" .
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> 
> 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
>> ===================
>> www.healingcommunities.org

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