/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 cheers. Mark Sargent -----Original Message----- From: François Patte [mailto:Francois.Patte@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 2004?11?9? 16:16 To: powderkeg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: mount: block device is write-protected Selon Mark Sargent <powderkeg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > IBM R30 > External Floppy > Fedora Core 2 > Newbie > > mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy > > mount: block device is write-protected, mounting read-only What is the entry for /dev/fd0 in the /etc/fstab file? > mount: /dev/fd0: can't read superblock Try another floppy..... -- François Patte Ecole française d'Extrême-Orient - Pune - Inde Université René Descartes - Paris 5 UFR de mathématiques et informatique http://www.math-info.univ-paris5.fr/~patte