Unable to mount the selected device: 2e Harddisk 160Gb int

[Florian Diesch]

Stephan Vissers <vissers_itm at yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have got a second disk, one that I earlier used in an other system with data
> on it,  installed on my old system. My ubuntu 6.06 does see this in "My
> Computer" but it could not be opened. It gives the following error message:
>
> "Unable to mount the selected device" (Harddisk 160Gb internal)
> error: device /dev/hdb1 is not removable
> error: could not execute pmount
>
> What should I do so that I can use this second disk?

put
 /dev/hdb1
in the file
 /etc/pmount.allow




   Florian
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