On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Galen Seitz <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 08/28/15 08:20, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > > I needed to use the floppy disk on my ubuntu 14.04 system (why is a > > separate story). I found that the default setup had the floppy owned by > > root. Even when I made myself a member of the group floppy, I did not > have > > write access. It appeared as if the drive was not a member of the group > > floppy. > > > > On searching for a solution I came across a change to /etc/fstab which > > solved the problem. My question is, I would like to understand what > these > > changes do and what the entries mean, and make sure that the changes do > not > > have any flaws. Could the dropping of the utf8 option produce a problem? > > > > Original entry (as provided by the installation): > > /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0 > > > > New entry: > > /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto > rw,user,noauto,exec,gid=floppy,umask=007 0 > > 0 > > Do you really need to mount the floppy? For occasional use, it's often > easier to use mtools. > > <http://www.gnu.org/software/mtools/> > <https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/trusty/+package/mtools> > > > galen Since Ubuntu supports the floppy though the GUI, and I now have user rights to it, I do not see the advantage of mtools. I only use it to transfer files to and from an ancient windows 3.1 system a former colleague and I are trying to resurrect. I suppose if I wanted to do something less routine with the floppy, I would benefit from mtools. With regard to the ancient system, how might I clone the HD so that in case the HD fails we will still have a functional system? We do not have the installation disks for the SW that is part of the system (win 3.1, IDL 3.6.1, and custom C code). Thanks -Denis _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
