floppy procedure

xyzzy at hotpop.com xyzzy at hotpop.com
Thu Jun 3 11:30:52 UTC 2004


On Thursday 03 June 2004 04:17, Scott Talbot wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 09:31, wrench38 at juno.com wrote:
> > It seems rather silly to have to ask this, but I haven't found the
> > whole answer in one place on the web. Does Fedora come prepared to
> > read and write floppies right out of the box? I need a step-by-step
> > procedure with nothing left out. If someone can point me to this,
> > it would be a tremendous help. My drive can only be mounted by root,
> > and seems to be always busy. Can I drag & drop to copy a file to
> > floppy? You may have guessed that I'm new to this. Thank you.
>
> 	I don't use the floppy much, but basically if you want to be able to
> mount the drive edit the /etc/fstab file so that the line includes the
> keyword 'users' as:
>
> /dev/fd0      /mnt/floppy         auto    noauto,users 0 0

Shouldn't that be 'user' ??

>
> recommend you read `man mount` so you learn how to do this.
>
> Also as root, change the permissions on the mount point:
>
> chmod a+rwx /mnt/floppy
>
> (note that this gives anyone who has access to your machine the power to
> execute a file from the floppy or write over your data) change to suit
> your needs
>
> You won't be able to mount until next reboot as that is when linux reads
> the /etc/fstab file.
>
> Yes you can drag and drop files to the Icon
>
> P.S. it is much friendlier to post to mailing list in plain text, rather
> than HTML, as I had to reformat your original message! :-)





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