From owner-freebsd-emulation Wed Feb 9 1:11:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from smtp6.mindspring.com (smtp6.mindspring.com [207.69.200.110]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B692B4856 for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2000 20:02:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from mindspring.com (user-2inigme.dialup.mindspring.com [165.121.66.206]) by smtp6.mindspring.com (8.9.3/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA28354; Tue, 8 Feb 2000 23:02:07 -0500 (EST) Received: (from vsilyaev@localhost) by mindspring.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA00464; Tue, 8 Feb 2000 23:02:06 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from vsilyaev) Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 23:02:05 -0500 From: "Vladimir N. Silyaev" To: The Hermit Hacker Cc: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VMWare: booting existing device ... Message-ID: <20000208230205.B248@jupiter.delta.ny.us> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Okay, I don`t recall reading anywhere that this doesn`t/won`t work, but, > if I missed it, please forgive this email ... > > Went into Wizard Configuration, choose `Existing Device`, and choose the > right partition (/dev/hda1), but it tells me `permission denied` to this > ... At first you are must to use 'hda' but not 'hda1' (the last don't exist in directory /compat/linux/dev/ at all). And next Linux have the rw-rw--- access but FreeBSD port rw-r--r-- mode for such node (I know the last 'r' is a security flaw and it'll be corrected in the next port). > > Is there something that I have to do in order to allow a `normal user` to > be able to access that file system? Try just apply the following command: chmod 660 /compat/linux/dev/hd? -- Vladimir Silyaev To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message