"Thomas J. Hamman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 24-Jul-99 Don Whitman wrote:
> It would only let me type that command as root. But it did mount the
floppy.
> There has got to be a better way to work with a floppy.
> Don
>
Well, it's not normal behavior (it only gave me that problem on one occasion
and has been fine since). I don't know what caused it or what I did to fix
it,
so all I can suggest is trying to tweak the fstab settings for the drive,
which
is easy to do in Linuxconf.
Run linuxconf as root, go to 'File systems', then 'Access local drive', and
then
you will see a list of drives you have mount points set for. Go into the
settings for /dev/fd0, make sure it has 'auto' set for the type, and make
sure
the 'User mountable' option is checked under the Options tab.
-Tom
I went to linuxconf and everything was set to the above options. Does it
matter that there is nothing on the disk it is just formatted to the ext2 file
system? So this sounds like something I might need some customer support from
mandrake about. How do you save stuff to a floppy? Does it have to be mounted
first? Could I save something to it then try to mount? Or did something go
terribly wrong at install time?
Thanks for your help Tom
Don
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