wrench38 juno com wrote: >Does Fedora come prepared to read and write floppies right out of the box Yes it does >My drive can only be mounted by root This is most likely caused by "nouser" setting on /dev/fd0 in your /etc/fstab file. For some good information on the /etc/fstab file, check out: http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html >and seems to be always busy This is should mean that some user is in that directory (/mnt/floppy). Be certain that no user is there before trying to umount the drive. >Can I drag & drop to copy a file to floppy? Yes, using Nautilus, the file manager in Gnome, the default FC2 Xwindow manager. Konqueror if you chose to use KDE. >I need a step-by-step procedure with nothing left out >From the command line: $ mount /dev/fd0 (this mounts the floppy. The "$" indicates a normal user prompt) $ cd /mnt/floppy (puts you into the floppy file system) $ cp ~/some.file . (copies the file named "some.file" to your current directory, in this case, the floppy) For doing this with the new Nautilus file manager in Gnome on FC2 you may have to seek help from somebody else. I know that it can be done, probably by having one "window" of your source directory open and another of your destination directory and just "dragging" the file from one to the other. Anyone else more familiar with this process than I am, please feel free to jump in here. HTH Jim Dishaw
