Re: dos floppies

[Al Hudson <nospam [at] york.ac.uk>]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Ross wrote:

> in all the time i've been using linux, i have never used the floppy drive for
> anything other than recovery disks. i tried copying my college work onto a
> fresh floppy and geuss what...... linux doesn't like it! says i don't have
> permision (who does that Linus bloke think he is ;-) )
> 
> i've since narrowed the problem down to the fact that it's formated as dos.
> it's quite happy if i format the disk as extfs2

What's in your fstab? And, have you tried using Mtools?

Cheers,

Alex.


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