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[fx fraipont <fxf@xxxxxxxxx>]

Patrick Shanahan wrote:

> * fx fraipont <xx@xxxxx> [06-06-04 07:20]:
>  
>
> > I've just realized that in 9.1 floppies are mounted read only, which 
> > means you can't delete files or copy anything to floppy. I unmounted
> > and then mounted RW, but it does not work.  I looked silly running to a
> > WinXP computer to write a floppy I could not write in SuSE Linux :-)
> > Solution?
> >    
>
> mount -t vfat -o user,exec,rw  /dev/fd0 /media/floppy
>  
This is what I tried, and these are the reults:

when I try to delete a file on the floppy:

Access denied to /media/floppy/setup_p.ini

when I try to copy a file to the floppy, I get :

Writing to drives is not supported


????