On Friday 14 December 2007 11:13:00 am Carlos E. R. wrote:
> The Thursday 2007-12-13 at 20:29 -0800, Russ Fineman wrote:
> > I am unable to mount a floppy as user or read or write the floppy as
> > user. I was able to read, write and mount floppy before updating my 10.2
> > system to KDE 3.5.8. I can do it as root. My user is in the groups floppy
> > and disk. Still denies permission to mount.
>
> Try manual mount via fstab, on the command line.
as user this is what I get:
mount /dev/fd0 /media/floppy
mount: only root can do that

Am I missing something in the mount command?
>
> > How do I format a CD RW to be a udf disk so I can drag and drop to it
> > instead of a floppy drive. Could not find answer on k3b website. Only
> > option in program is erase CD. No format option. Burn allows me to do it
> > but I was under the impression I could set the CDRW to act like a floppy.
> > The one method I found searching through google did not work.
>
> I would never use such a method. It will never be reliable. Use an USB
> gadchet instead.
>
> --
> Cheers,
>         Carlos E. R.
Yes I was just out looking and I found that Scandisk now makes an 8GB usb 
device. Need to research it to insure it will work with 10.3 before I buy 
one.

Thanks for the reply.


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Russ
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