>     I have DOS (w2k) partitions on a separate hard drive and 
> can access them as /dosc, etc., thru Linux. I can no longer 
> run w2k on this machine.
>     In order to get a 5M file back to a DOS machine, I used 
> Linux zip and got it down to 1.01M. But when I try to copy it 
> to a DOS diskette, I get the message that the new file can't 
> be created because of a read-only file system. I have tried 
> re-mounting the device as /a and made sure that the type is 
> vfat. The rest of the line in /etc/fstab is noauto,user 0 0. 
> I have tried everything I can find in several Linux books. 
> Any suggestions?

Did you check that the floppy was writ able (the little plastic thing is
covering one of the holes)?  What does df show for the floppy?  Did you try
to format the floppy again?

Forrest



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