On Thursday 03 June 2004 04:17, Scott Talbot wrote: > 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 Shouldn't that be 'user' ?? > > 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! :-)
