Steve, On Friday 13 August 2004 02:29, steve-ss wrote:
Can anyone help us here? I want to be able to write to a floppy disk as a user. Using the floppy icon under ~/my computer results in:
cannot enter folder /media/floppy
Does this diagnostic occur immediately, or is there a delay? If it's the former, it could be a permissions problem or the device may not be mounted. Other replies have addressed these possibilities. If the diagnostic takes a few seconds to appear, it's probably just that the diskette is not formatted or does not contain a file system of an acceptable type. To format from the comand line, use "fdformat" ("man 8 fdformat" for details). Fdformat will only do a low-level format, it will not create a file system. For that, use "mkfs" ("man 8 mkfs" for some of the gory details and one or more of the file system-specific file system formatters listed at the bottom of the page for further, gorier details). There's also something called "gfloppy" that will appear relatively familiar to Windows users. It gives pop-ups, text fields and radio buttons that control the details of common diskette formatting options. Gfloppy is supplied by the "gnome-utils" package, in case it's not currently installed on your system.
Thanks, Steve
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Randall Schulz