Op vrijdag 2 juli 2004 04:10, schreef BandiPat:
On Thursday 01 July 2004 06:32 pm, Doug McGarrett wrote:
Hello, list--
Somebody must have the same problem and has solved it. I CANNOT WRITE TO MY FLOPPY DISK AND I NEED TO.
I have already added "users" in fstab. It made no difference whatever. This is SuSE 9.1 with this funny mounting scheme.
Could some kind soul tell me how to make the floppy write-accessible for user, for root, for anybody in the whole wide world, I don't care, so I can copy information to a machine that i don't know how to make the network work for. (It's Win 98, se) [...] Thanx. I know I ask a lot more than I contribute, but by and large this is a pretty darned good bunch of people here.
PS: Does anyone on eastern Long Island, NY, USA, know of Linux classes anywhere not too far away? I'm in Rocky Point.
--doug
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Doug, I found that putting the floppy entry in /etc/fstab back to how it was setup in 9.0 to be the best. Here is the entry you need in your fstab to change it back and away from the automatic stuff. This also allows you to add an icon to your desktop and mount it normally. Don't forget also that you have to unmount it before removing the disk.
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0
That's the one. And Doug, if you're nervous about changing a config file make it a habit to never delete an entry but comment it out. (i.e. put a hashmark in front of it). So your edited conf file should look: #OLD LINE NEW LINE if you don't like that you always can fall back on OLD LINE #NEW LINE that will restore the old configuration. Regards, -- Jos van Kan