RE: dos floppies

["Paul Sims" <nospam [at] lombard.co.uk>]

Shouldn't be a problem - have you formatted the floppy as fat for starters?

make sure the line if /etc/fstab reads /dev/fd0  /floppy  auto  rw,noauto,user

then, as any user, just type "mount /floppy" and you'll have access.

replace /floppy with your chosen mountpoint, eg, /mnt/floppy

On Monday, February 28, 2000 7:53 PM, Ross [SMTP:ros.h [at] virgin.net] 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
> 
> i wouldn't really mind but it means i can't work on the files at work (win NT
> m/c) 
> 
> any suggestions ?
> 
> -- 
> 
> Thanks,        
> Ross


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