Just had a similar issue, and used touch to add a floppy file to /dev and then linked fd0 to it. Norm On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 07:17, Clifford Snow wrote: > On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 05:11, melgil88 wrote: > > Ok I feel like an idiot, I must be just not getting something here or > > overlooking something real obvious. > > > > I've googled for how to have a user mount a floppy. I found about 5 > > pages that told me the same thing...enable permissions on /mnt/floppy > > and edit /etc/fstab, so that's what I did... > > > > Here's the perms: > > drwxr-xr-x 6 me users 4096 Jun 3 13:47 mnt > > drwxrwxrwx 2 me users 4096 May 31 20:41 floppy > > > > Here's the line in /etc/fstab: > > /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,user,rw 0 > > 0 > > > > I'm still getting: > > [me@ me]$ mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy > > mount: only root can do that > > > > What am I missing? > You did everything correctly except the mount command. Try: > mount /mnt/floppy
