Re: dos floppies

[José Luis Gómez Dans <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 07:41:47PM +0000, 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 ;-) )

	Easiest is to use mtools. Then, if you have write access to
/dev/fd0 (or whatever you're using), you just do a 
$ mdir a:
$ mcopy a:/project.dvi .
and so on and so forth. To do this, you can give everyone access to
/dev/fd0, or just some chosen members of a group, and then just add
yourself to that group. If you can't be bothered by any of the above,
just use mtools as root :)

	You might also want to mount dos floppies (why you might want to
do this having mtools scapes me, though), messing about with /etc/fstab.

	Hope that helps,
	José

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José L Gómez Dans			PhD student
					Radar & Communications Group
					Department of Electronic Engineering
					University of Sheffield UK
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