on Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 12:31:17AM -0700, Mr. Jan Hearthstone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I have Debian potato, and suddenly I couldn't save > to floppy (this would happen now and then, but till > now I managed to fix it, somehow). I tried linuxconf > (both - WindowsX and console mode), but nothing > worked. After I fiddled with it for a while, I can't > even open a floppy anymore. > It is vital that I can save to floppy, please help!
- How are you mounting the floppy? What commands? As what user?
- What are the permissions on the floppy?
- Is disk write-protected?
- If you're mounting against your fstab, what's the floppy line in
/etc/fstab?
I have the following line, which allows user or group write access, in
/etc/fstab. I've added my standard user to group 'disk' (not the best
choice of groups, I could screw myself royally here by writing direct to
disk accidentally):
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,gid=disk,umask=007,rw,user 2 2
Peace.
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