On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 09:31, wrench38@xxxxxxxx wrote: > It seems rather silly to have to ask this, but I haven't found the > whole answer in one place on the web. Does Fedora come prepared to > read and write floppies right out of the box? I need a step-by-step > procedure with nothing left out. If someone can point me to this, > it would be a tremendous help. My drive can only be mounted by root, > and seems to be always busy. Can I drag & drop to copy a file to > floppy? You may have guessed that I'm new to this. Thank you. > I don't use the floppy much, but basically if you want to be able to mount the drive edit the /etc/fstab file so that the line includes the keyword 'users' as: /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,users 0 0 recommend you read `man mount` so you learn how to do this. Also as root, change the permissions on the mount point: chmod a+rwx /mnt/floppy (note that this gives anyone who has access to your machine the power to execute a file from the floppy or write over your data) change to suit your needs You won't be able to mount until next reboot as that is when linux reads the /etc/fstab file. Yes you can drag and drop files to the Icon P.S. it is much friendlier to post to mailing list in plain text, rather than HTML, as I had to reformat your original message! :-)
