I have a linux box and I was trying to copy a file to the floppy but it system wouldn''t let me. ( no the write protect tab wasn''t set ) FD0 is mounted to /floppy its setup in fstab, done by YAST (SUSE install). I made sure i could write to the floppy and drive with a W98 boot disk and a cdrom, it worked fine. I can''t figure it out, i even tried to chmod /floppy and fd0. I don''t ''need'' to use the floppy drive anymore (the win98 and cdrom cured that) but now I have to figure this out... any help.. suggestions?

Check fstab to see if the floppy is mounted with the writable option.

There is no ''RO'' for fd0 line.

Here is a copy of fstab:
/dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda3 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2

/dev/hdb /cdrom iso9660 ro,noauto,user 0 0

/dev/fd0 /floppy auto noauto,user 1 1

none /proc proc defaults 0 0

none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0

I thought it might be that the ''1 1'' should be ''0 0'' but i don''t know what they are for, so i figure let me ask before messing with it. Thanks for any help.

You could try being root when you try to copy files to the disk.

also you could try changing the floppy line to
/dev/fd0 /floppy auto rw,noauto,user 1 1

Its just a guess sorry. I''m using FreeBSD at the moment. I''ve used SuSE 7.3 but it was a while ago.

the first 1 is has to do with dump which is used for backups, and second has to do with how fsck checks the filesystems at boot. I''m not sure if it matters since its not mounted automatically.

Be careful when changing the fstab of filesystems that are automatically mounted. The boot can stop with a error if something is wrong.

Thanks for trying. I''m looking through how-to''s and faqs... hopefully something will turnup. Know anything about SAMBA by chance?

Try switching "user" to "users". Usually you default to group users, so that should hopefully allow users to use and make use of the floppy drive, so they can use it.

Wow, that was dumb.

I hate to ask, so don''t be insulted, but the floppy did mount right?

Samba, yeah.

http://www.samba.org/

We''ve done some testing at my company with samba domains, I''ve used it some integration work at some of my earlier careers (grin).

Start at the web site.

Interim

It was the mount command, or should i say how I was using it.

Google is my friend.

rc.config Dummydevice = yes = no linux-samba box in network neighborhood.