On Friday 23 January 2004 12:08, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
Hi all,
Just recently tried to export some documentation onto a floppy disk so that I could use it on another PC. However I was unable to write it to the floppy.
I can remember that from my Mandrake days the floppy was /mnt/floppy but when I when into a Konqueror window and navigated to the directory it didn't exist. I explored a little and only saw a fd under /dev but under / I saw a /media/floppy owned by root.
Seeing the ownershipmade me try and copy the files using a root login but alas it did not help.
The ?relevant? entries in my fstab file is below for help + explanation:
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom auto ro,noauto,user,exec 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy auto noauto,user,sync 0 0
Should I change the mount point from media/floppy to /mnt/floppy or add another entry into the file?
The files I needed to copy onto a floppy are now sitting under /media/floppy as well in their original location where they were copied from and there is nothing on te floppy disk, and it is not write protected :)
Suggestions to enable writing to floppy disk.
Mounting it would probably help mount /media/floppy cp /whatever/files/you/want /media/floppy umount /media/floppy